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Examining variation in treatment costs: a cost function for outpatient methadone treatment programs.(Substance Abuse Treatment)(Report)
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Health Services Research
- Article date:
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Dunlap, Laura J.; Zarkin, Gary A.; Cowell, Alexander J.
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Objectives. To estimate a hybrid cost function of the relationship between total annual cost for outpatient methadone treatment and output (annual patient days and selected services), input prices (wages and building space costs), and selected program and patient case-mix characteristics.
Data Sources. Data are from a multistate study of 159 methadone treatment programs that participated in the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Evaluation of the Methadone/LAAM Treatment Program Accreditation Project between 1998 and 2000.
Study Design. Using least squares regression for weighted data, we estimate the relationship between total annual costs and selected output measures, wages, ...