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Question

You want to perform a high-low analysis to divide total hospital costs between their fixed and variable components, but the low year was 1999 and the high year was 2017. What step should you take to make the dollars of the two years roughly comparable-and how should you do that? Please be specific (for example, which PPI?) and tell us what process (or formula) you would use. It is 2026 and you advise a new "U.S. All-payer Commission." a) You aim to promote more desirable configurations of hospitals (good balance between teaching and non-teaching hospitals, between urban and rural hospitals, and between hospitals located in high- and low-income areas). Which method of paying hospitals considered in our course would give you the best tools to promote those configurations? Briefly explain your choice. b) You aim to promote more desirable configurations of physicians (good balance by PCP/other and by location). Which method of paying physicians considered in our course would give you the best tools to promote those configurations. Briefly explain your choice.