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 dropdown 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 dropdown 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, select 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 Number of encounters for each item or person in the category.
Avg Variable Cost Average of variable costs for this category in the institution. It is the value that other costs are compared against.
Internal Comparison Weighted average of the underlying data for this category.
Excess Variable Cost 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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