Prospective Payment for Psychiatry — Feasibility and Impact
- 20 November 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 315 (21) , 1331-1336
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198611203152106
Abstract
Although 15 diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) have been proposed for psychiatric hospital patients, psychiatric hospitals are currently exempt from the DRG prospective payment system. We investigated the ability of the psychiatric DRGs to predict the hospital length of stay and costs by retrospectively analyzing the charts of 8816 randomly selected patients from 32 psychiatric hospitals throughout the United States. In addition, we developed other grouping systems to see whether they would have been better predictors of length of stay.Keywords
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