Inpatient Encounter Selection
Overview
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This report lets you evaluate cost opportunities for your data selection by various items: DRG, principal diagnosis, principal procedure, and attending provider.
Slicers
This report contains filters called slicers that let you define the exact set of data that you want to examine.
Entity
The entity drop-down lists all of the clinics, hospitals, and other entities that comprise your institution. You can choose to view all of those entities or select a single entity to view.
Service Line
This drop-down lists all of the service lines defined for your institution. You can view all service lines or one or more individual service lines. To select multiple service lines, press and hold the CTRL key while you select.
Discharge date range
This control lets you select a range of dates of discharge. You can use the slider or, for more precision, click on each date box to choose a date from a calendar.
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Cost Opportunities
This report let you examine cost opportunities by DRG, Principal Diagnosis, Principal Procedure, and Attending Provider. All of these views use the same columns.
| Category | Either DRG, Principal Diagnosis, Principal Procedure, or Attending Provider |
| Encounters | The number of encounters for each item or person in the category |
| Avg Variable Cost | The average of variable costs for this category in the institution. It is the value that other costs are compared against |
| Internal Comparison | This is a weighted average of the underlying data for this category |
| Excess Variable Cost | The excess cost of all encounters for this category. This value can be positive (higher than average) or negative (lower than average) |
| Per Encounter | Cost per encounter for the item or person |
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