Site of Service Savings Opportunities
Most people working in healthcare know that the cost for the same service can vary significantly by setting (e.g. office based vs hospital) and by provider within a setting. The example below illustrates this for a simple surgery with the price doubling in the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) setting and being almost 5 times as … Site of Service Savings Opportunities
Analytic Basics – Completeness and Outlier Episode Flags
Analysts working with episode of care groupers for the first time often have questions about how to use the various value-added flags assigned to episodes. Episode of care groupers link together all of the claims that pertain to the treatment of a particular condition for a particular patient, to create a powerful unit of analysis. … Analytic Basics – Completeness and Outlier Episode Flags