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In addition, the literature concerning scale economies in the hospital industry has yielded conflicting results as to the optimal size for a hospital. Therefore, this research attempts to identify those pairs of hospital services exhibiting economies or diseconomies of scope and determine the degree of scale economies present in the production of hospital services. The process involves the estimation of three separate multiproduct cost functions (the translog, the hybrid translog, and the CES translog) as measured over eight output groups defined by the DRG classification scheme. The results support the unbundling of such services as diseases and disorders of the eyes, but indicate no cost savings from the establishment of free standing emergency, outpatient, or ophthamalogic clinics which already exist in the market. 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