The revenue impact of unrecorded emergency department procedures
A central area of expertise at 3terra is helping hospitals improve data quality which can lead to improved funding, as outlined in this article. This year, we expanded our focus and started to analyze the effect of poor data quality on outpatient cases, including Emergency Department (ED) visits. This article provides an overview of those findings. THE METHODOLOGY The case weight (a measure of patient complexity that is used to determine hospital funding) for an ED visit is straightforward compared to inpatient stays. Generally speaking, patients are in the ED for a limited amount of time, so fewer interventions and procedures …
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