Hospital Charges
The effect of publishing hospital charges on healthcare costs: Evidence from Singapore
... Publishing hospital charges makes patients and medical doctors more informed about healthcare ...cheapest hospital to get ...publishing hospital charges reduces healthcare costs remains ...
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Effects of Rapid Detection of Bloodstream Infections on Length of Hospitalization and Hospital Charges
... Current automated continuous-monitoring blood culture systems afford more rapid detection of bacteremia and funge- mia than is possible with non-instrument-based manual meth- ods (5, 13, 14, 24, 27). Detection with ...
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Evaluation of a Pediatric Hospitalist Service: Impact on Length of Stay and Hospital Charges
... teaching hospital is associated with a decreased length of stay for medical ...in charges for hospi- talization at a time when health care charges were increasing faster than the general rate of ...
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Impact of Necrotizing Enterocolitis on Length of Stay and Hospital Charges in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
... total hospital charges for infants with surgical NEC averaged $186 200 in excess of those for controls and $73 700 more for infants with medical ...additional hospital charges for NEC were ...
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Patient and Hospital Characteristics Associated With Length of Stay and Hospital Charges for Pediatric Sports-Related Injury Hospitalizations in the United States, 2000–2003
... on hospital charges, not actual costs. In general, hospital charges are greater than actual ...several charges (eg, physician professional fees, emergency transportation costs, ...
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Do unemployment and payor category impact length of stay and hospital charges of spine fusion patients?
... in hospital and had on average $5800 higher hospital ...and hospital cost between government and private insurance pa- ...and hospital cost, especially in the >39 and <60 age group with ...
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Distribution and predictors of hospital charges for haemorrhagic stroke patients in Beijing, China, March 2012 to February 2015: a retrospective study
... A stepwise multiple linear regression model was used to determine the predictors of various hospital charges. We performed a log transformation for the financial data in order to make it Gaussian ...
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Surfactant Replacement Therapy: Impact on Hospital Charges for Premature Infants With Respiratory Distress Syndrome
... randomized trial of a calf lung surfactant extract adminis- tered at birth to very premature infants for prevention of respiratory distress syndrome. Kendig JW, Notter RH, Cox C, et al: [r] ...
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Decreased hospital charges and postoperative pain in septoplasty by application of enhanced recovery after surgery
... From December 2017 to February 2018, 50 cases who underwent nasal septal correction in the Department of Otolaryngology of the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University were selected for further clinical ...
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Household food insecurity positively associated with increased hospital charges for infants
... low) charges for conditions not likely to be influenced by food insecurity (for example, appendicitis, motor vehicle accident, single gene disorders), we excluded infants with such diagnoses from further ...
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Intussusception: Hospital Size and Risk of Surgery
... We found that children with the diagnosis of in- tussusception who received care in a specialized pe- diatric facility had a lower risk of operative reduc- tion, decreased LOS, and lower hospital charges ...
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Direct Medical Costs of Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in the United States
... total hospital charges. Costs were estimated from reported charges by applying hospital- specific cost/charge ratios based on all-payer inpatient ...
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Prolonged length of stay associated with air leak following pulmonary resection has a negative impact on hospital margin
... increased hospital LOS for ...increased hospital charges and ...longer hospital stay, this is disproportional to the increased cost of hospitalization resulting in a diminishing ...
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<p>Effect Of Surgical Safety Checklists On Gastric Cancer Outcomes: A Single-Center Retrospective Study</p>
... Surgical complications represent a signi fi cant cause of morbidity and mortality, with the rate of major complica- tions after inpatient surgery estimated at 3 – 17% in indus- trialized countries. 13,14 SSCs may prevent ...
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Seasonality of discrepancies between admission and discharge diagnosis for Medicare patients
... for each of the 52 weeks of a calendar year. We also introduce two measures: Length of Stay (LOS) and Claims Payment Amount to measure and visualize with time series plots how the diagnosis discrepancies are associated ...
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Incidence of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury and Associated Hospital Resource Utilization in the United States
... KID, hospital bed-size categories (small, medium, and large) are based on the number of short-term pa- tient beds, the geographic region of the hospital, and the teaching status of the ...hospital. ...
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Effect of high up front charges on access to surgery for poor patients at a public hospital in New Mexico
... that hospital charges were dis- counted about 50% on ...their charges for all patients so that they can increase the amount of reimbursement from a subset of insurance companies willing to pay the ...
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Patient and Hospital Correlates of Clinical Outcomes and Resource Utilization in Severe Pediatric Sepsis
... Higher charges were associated with higher illness severity, and nonsurvivors had ...total charges than survivors. Also, higher charges were observed among hospitalizations in urban or children’s ...
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Trends in Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in the United States, 2000–2009
... Total hospital charges re fl ected the total facility fees reported for each discharge ...using hospital-speci fi c cost-charge ratios for 2009 ...the hospital ac- counting reports collected by ...
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Hospital competition and the expenses for treatments of acute and non acute common diseases: evidence from China
... the hospital market may not lower the “price” (total hospital charges), com- pared with the general ...total hospital charges due to more supplier- induced ...total hospital ...
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