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Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets, Revised Edition
American Hospital Association: Health Data Management Group

Softbound reference book
ISBN 1556483198
9781556483196
AHA / Health Forum
June 2004
Price $45.00

 

Estimated Useful Lives is an essential reference book that every health care provider organization, finance department or accounting consultancy must have. 

This reliable book is designed to meet the specific needs of financial professionals responsible for ensuring the administration and documentation of their health care organization’s capital investments. Every hospital accounting office needs one or more of these books for reference.

Estimated Useful Lives provides clear and concise estimates of the useful life span of hundreds of capital items commonly acquired for the delivery of health care services. The Medicare program and CMS (formerly HCFA) recognize the estimated useful lives as assigned in this book. For your convenience, this book provides reference tables with data for nine primary categories of capital investments:

  • Buildings
  • Building components
  • Fixed equipment
  • Building services equipment
  • Administrative departments
  • Nursing departments
  • Diagnostic equipment
  • Treatment equipment
  • Support departments

Recommended by the American Hospital Association (AHA), this updated edition also includes a special introduction that addresses and answers frequently asked questions about the proper use of estimated lives information. This book is the newest edition, a 2004 revision and expansion of the 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998 editions. 

The next edition of this resource book is not expected to be published until 2009 or 2010. Until that date, this 2004 edition will continue to be regarded by the industry as the generally accepted reference for these accounting standards in healthcare. The data have been compiled from:

  • a consensus of leading appraisal companies,
  • hospital administrators,
  • hospital construction firms,
  • suppliers, and,
  • experts in capital accounting.

The publisher is grateful to the following individuals for assisting with the development of this edition: George S. Arges, Health Data Management Group, American Hospital Association; David S. Felsenthal, Wellspring Valuation, Ltd.; Martha Garner and Todd Hall, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Sally Mason Boemer, Partners Healthcare System; Michael Miller, Healthcare Valuation Services; John S. Oliva, American Appraisal Associates; Ed Pruchunas, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and Doug Young and Carl Turano, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. 

The estimates developed over the course of these seven editions have been based primarily on the recommendations of the following appraisal firms: American Appraisal Associates, Inc., Milwaukee; Marshall & Stevens Incorporated, St. Louis; Valuation Counselors Group, Inc., Chicago; and Wellspring Valuation, Ltd., Chicago. 

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. The Health Forum was created in the fall of 1998 through the union of The Healthcare Forum and the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries.

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