Mind the information gap: fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan

Health Economics Review

Table 3 The Effect of Declining Fertility on Ob/gyns' Revenue^a

Year	Number of attending ob/gyns	Average number of singleton deliveries performed	Average revenue from singleton deliveries (in NT$)	Average revenue from inpatient tocolysis (in NT$)
1996	1,879	177.22	3,343,926.08	148,431.73
1997	1,685	186.43	3,653,196.72	157,001.29
1998	1,666	153.58	3,088,646.87	142,946.03
1999	1,657	159.92	3,244,554.32	158,192.13
2000	1,614	172.50	3,504,260.61	165,691.29
2001	1,625	144.14	2,958,485.39^a	152,658.26^a
2002	1,614	137.25	2,864,625.75^a	157,025.88^a
2003	1,594	134.95	2,992,693.05^a	154,092.17^a
2004	1,587	135.66	3,062,313.78^a	182,177.66^a
Total	3,044	NA	NA

a Due to the implementation of global budgeting in 2001, those revenues are the points of worth for singleton deliveries and inpatient tocolysis from 2001 to 2004, and they need to be adjusted by the dollar value per service point. So the actual revenues will be lower than the numbers listed.

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