Conclusions: Our findings suggest that Medicare inpatient encounters are associated with higher coding intensity than ...
Trying to break even on Medicare is always a concern for hospital executives, but how plausible is it? And just how important is Medicare to a hospital’s bottom line? In fiscal year 2012, total gross ...
Overarching the U.S. hospital payment system is each individual hospital's "chargemaster." The data shown in Exhibit 1, for example, were taken from the chargemasters of the hospitals featured in the ...