Predictors of High Profit and High Deficit Outliers under SwissDRG of a Tertiary Care Center.

<h4>Principles</h4>Case weights of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) are determined by the average cost of cases from a previous billing period. However, a significant amount of cases are largely over- or underfunded. We therefore decided to analyze earning outliers of our hospital as to s...

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Main Authors: Tarun Mehra, Christian Thomas Benedikt Müller, Jörk Volbracht, Burkhardt Seifert, Rudolf Moos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140874