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Anlagenutzungskosten

English translation: asset usage cost

14:48 Oct 26, 2021
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Swiss DRG
German term or phrase: Anlagenutzungskosten
The document is a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing two types of surgeries. This term comes up in a discussion of DRG-relevant factors. It appears only in a table, as "KG mit (ANK)", and the abbreviations are given as "Kostengewicht" (cost weight) and "Anlagenutzungskosten".
What is the English term for this or does it require an explanation?
Celia Bodnar
Canada
Local time: 22:00
English translation:asset usage cost
Explanation:
Or you could say facilities. This is presumably things like buildings and equipment.
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philgoddard
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3asset usage cost
philgoddard
4other hospital costs / general hospital costs / general inpatient related costs
Cillie Swart
3facility fee
Adrian MM.
Summary of reference entries provided
Swiss usage
Steffen Walter

  

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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
asset usage cost


Explanation:
Or you could say facilities. This is presumably things like buildings and equipment.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 54

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: https://www.pwc.ch/publications/2016/pwc_spitalimmobilien_pe... seems to suggest that this exclusively refers to real estate, i.e. hospital buildings (see pp. 7 and 16-19)./Basically it does, but it doesn't seem to refer to equipment.
1 min
  -> Yes, so my translation fits the bill perfectly.
agree  Cillie Swart: seems plausible
52 mins
agree  Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
3 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
other hospital costs / general hospital costs / general inpatient related costs


Explanation:
I actually agree with Phil, but this might involve property specifically, as in costs involved in using the physical assets in terms of the hospital room, equipment, etc, apart from medication. So it is like a catch all cost item.

Cillie Swart
South Africa
Local time: 04:00
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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facility fee


Explanation:
Facilities can refer to the hospital's fixed assets. The second example sentence clearly refers to visits to Canadian healthcare facilities as buildings.

Example sentence(s):
  • USA: You may be asked to pay a facility fee when you see a doctor at a facility that he or she doesn’t own or that is owned by a hospital.
  • Canada: If you visit one of our *healthcare facilities* with a valid healthcare insurance card from another Canadian province, you are covered during the first three months of your stay in Quebec.

    Reference: http://the-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Understan...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 10

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Steffen Walter: Your suggestion seems to be off the mark in this case. See https://www.pwc.ch/publications/2016/pwc_spitalimmobilien_pe... for the Swiss "Anlagenutzungskosten" concept this question refers to.
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Reference comments


29 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Swiss usage

Reference information:
https://www.pwc.ch/publications/2016/pwc_spitalimmobilien_pe... explains this Swiss concept in more detail (see pages 7 and 16-19 in particular). Based on this information, I'd probably tend towards using "asset utilisation cost" or "property utilisation cost". I'd wait for other colleagues' comments/contributions, though.

Steffen Walter
Germany
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 134

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  philgoddard: A lot of the hits refer to hospitals.
9 mins
  -> Yes, that's true.
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