Hospital malpractice insurance premiums	American Hospital Association, Selected Hospital Topics Survey for 1977. Unpublished data from the Office of Research Affairs.
Food	American Hospital Association, Hospital Administrative Services Survey. Unpublished data for 1977 from the Office of Research Affairs.
	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.
	The weight for nonlabor dietary expenses was derived from the American Hospital Association's Hospital Administrative Services Survey. The weight for cafeteria expenses was derived from the Gort et.al., study for Greater New York. Food was split between purchases at early stages of distribution and purchases at later stages of distribution using the relationship in the American Hospital Association's Hospital Input Price Index.*
Fuel	American Hospital Association, Hospital Administrative Services Survey. Unpublished data for 1977 from the Office of Research Affairs.
	Fuel and other utilities was partitioned into four components (a) fuel oil and coal, (b) electricity, (c) natural gas, and (d) water and sanitary services using relationships from input-output data on the hospital industry developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.**

^*P. Joseph Phillip, Hospital Input Price Index, Office of Research Affairs, The American Hospital Association, November 1978, table 9.

^**The Bureau of Economic Analysis, Inter-industry Economics Division, supplied unpublished worksheets on the hospital industry to HEW. These worksheets for 1972 show the value of input consumption by hospitals for each industry that supplies raw materials and services to hospitals. Each input industry expense amount was aged from 1972 to 1977 using historical price changes for the detailed expense categories. Relative expenditure weights were than calculated for the various categories.