In May 2013 CMS released charge and payment data for inpatient services for all hospitals for the Top 100 DRGs across the nation. The details of the released data can be seen here.
Especially after the significant public scrutiny of the data in publications such as Modern Healthcare, Huffington Post, Brighthospital developed an analysis to see a real comparison of this data based on the local hospitals as defined by CMS (CBSA - Core-Based Statistical Area) and a custom compare group that can compare hospitals truly to their peers.
Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System is very dependent on a number of factors such as teaching, local price index, CMI, disproportionate care ratios and other factors. Keeping all these in mind, the analysis provides a comparison of these indicators both to local and compare group and then shows the charge and payment differences in chart and graph format.
As a sample, a comparison of Massachusetts General Hospital is available to review. The first file is a comparison of descriptive statistics. The second file is a graph of the charge and payment difference. And third file is the detail of charge and payment difference.
If you would like to see a comparison of a specific hospital, feel free to contact info@brighthospital.com. We would be happy to provide it.