Table 2. Comparison of weights for various hospital market baskets.

Expense Category	National Hospital Input Price Index	American Hospital Association (note a)	Greater New York, Associated Hospital Service (note b)	Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (note c)	New Jersey Department of Health (note d)	Voluntary Budget Review Organization of Maine (note e)
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Payroll expenses (wages and salaries) and professional fees	56.7	57.1	56.0	60.7	62.5	62.3
Employee benefits	7.2	7.4	6.7	3.3	8.3	6.8
Capital	6.0	7.8	6.6	6.3	NA	4.2
Hospital malpractice insurance premiums	2.0	2.0	0.7	0.8	NA	0.3
Food	3.1	4.0	3.3	2.2	3.5	3.7
Fuel and other utilities	2.4	5.5	1.1	1.9	2.9	1.4
Other	22.6	16.2	25.6	24.8	22.8	21.3

^a/The American Hospital Association, unpublished data, January 1979.

^b/Michael Gort, et.al., Report on the Hospital Price Index for Greater New York, prepared for the Associated Hospital Service of New York, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975, Table 4, Group 4 Hospitals.

^c/Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, unpublished data.

^d/John C. Rossman, et.al., An Economic Factor for the Hospitals of New Jersey, Hospital Association of New York State, Inc., December 1977, Supplement. Weights for depreciation, capital debt, and malpractice insurance are omitted from the total so all other weights are proportionally higher.

^e/Voluntary Budget Review Organization, Augusta, Maine, unpublished data, March 1979.