Professional Fee Ratios for US Hospital Discharge Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

US hospital discharge datasets typically report facility charges (ie, room and board), excluding professional fees (ie, attending physicians' charges).

Objectives

We aimed to estimate professional fee ratios (PFR) by year and clinical diagnosis for use in cost analyses based on hospital discharge data.

Subjects

The subjects consisted of a retrospective cohort of Truven Health MarketScan 2004-2012 inpatient admissions (n=23,594,605) and treat-and-release emergency department (ED) visits (n=70,771,576).

Measures

PFR per visit was assessed as total payments divided by facility-only payments.

Research design

Using ordinary least squares regression models controlling for selected characteristics (ie, patient age, comorbidities, etc.), we calculated

SUBMITTER: Peterson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4681390 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature