Source of admission and cost: public hospitals face financial risk.
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 76 (6) , 696-697
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.76.6.696
Abstract
We studied all admissions to the 11 acute care hospitals of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (April 1983-September 1984) matching emergency room (ER) admitted diagnostic related group (DRG) subgroups in each hospital with at least five non-ER admitted patients (N = 222,961). Mean cost per ER patient ($8,385) was greater than non-ER mean cost per patient ($4,386) for Medicare and non-Medicare. Our data suggest that public hospitals with a high proportion of ER admissions may be at a financial disadvantage under DRG reimbursement.Keywords
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