Inpatient Cost Opportunity

Overview

This report lets you examine inpatient cost opportunities by several factors: service line, attending provider, and DRG and cost group.

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Slicers

This report provides filtering options that let you create a view a subset of the encounters, giving you the option of viewing the exact patient population that you want to view.

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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Inpatient Cost Opportunity

The reports on this dashboard provide the following data showing cost opportunity in several categories.

Service Line	Each service line you specified is listed in this report
Encounters	Count of all encounters by this service line
Avg Variable Cost
Internal Comparison
Excess Variable Cost
Per Encounter

Cost Opportunity by Service Line

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The report provides a table of cost opportunities for each service line you specified.

Cost Opportunity by Attending Provider

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This report provides a table of cost opportunities for each provider in each service line you specified. You can use the Min encounters drop-down to select attending providers who have had a last that many encounters in the date range you specified. The default is 1 encounter.

Cost Opportunity by DRG and Cost Group

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This report provides a table of cost opportunities by DRG and Cost Group.

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