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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-7-21
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this study was to analyze hospital resource consumption in the nine neurosurgical DRGs not stratified by complicating condition (CCs) (i.e., those neurosurgical DRGs that give no additional payment for associated medical conditions or complications occurring in the hospital). We analyzed 148 Medicare patients in these non-CC stratified neurosurgical DRGs and found that patients with a greater number of CCs had higher hospital resource consumption, substantial financial risk under DRGs, and a poorer outcome than patients with no CCs. These data suggest that the current DRG classification scheme may be inequitable vis-à-vis the non-CC stratified neurosurgical DRGs at our hospital. Hospitals that treat significant numbers of these patients may face disincentives to care for them under prospective Medicare DRG reimbursement.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0148-396X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
955-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Financial risk, hospital cost, and complications and comorbidities (CCs) in non-CC stratified neurosurgical diagnostic related groups (DRGs).
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Neurosurgery, Queens Hospital Center, New Hyde Park, New York.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article