Working with Service Line Analysis Reports

Service Line analytics and reporting are instrumental in evaluating health service operations. The extremely wide and varied nature of health conditions and treatment methods makes service lines a valuable way of classifying the patients served by provider organizations into quasi-homogenous populations. These service line classifications creating quasi-homogenous populations are vital to comparative report across multiple dimensions, such as:

• Comparing services offered across multiple care settings or multiple hospitals
• Comparing physician performance using risk adjusted service lines
• Comparing alternative treatment plans for quality and patient outcomes
• Comparing insurance plans or payers relative to the services rendered and reimbursed by service line provides a means of normalization for comparative purposes