Averill Richard F, Vertrees James C, McCullough Elizabeth C, Hughes John S, Goldfield Norbert I
3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA.
Health Care Financ Rev. 2006 Spring;27(3):83-93.
Under the Medicare diagnosis-related group (DRG) based inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), payments to hospitals can increase when a post-admission complication occurs. This article proposes a redesign of IPPS that reduces, but does not eliminate, the increase in payment due to post-admission complications. Using California data that contained a specification of whether each diagnosis was present at admission, and applying a conservative approach to identifying potentially preventable complications, the impact of post-admission complications on DRG assignment was determined. Based on the redesigned IPPS, the increase in Medicare payments due to post-admission complications was reduced by more than one billion dollars annually.
在基于医疗保险诊断相关分组(DRG)的住院患者前瞻性支付系统(IPPS)下,当入院后出现并发症时,医院获得的支付可能会增加。本文提出了一种IPPS的重新设计方案,该方案可减少但不会消除因入院后并发症导致的支付增加。利用包含每个诊断在入院时是否存在的详细信息的加利福尼亚州数据,并采用保守方法识别潜在可预防的并发症,确定了入院后并发症对DRG分组的影响。基于重新设计的IPPS,因入院后并发症导致的医疗保险支付增加额每年减少了超过10亿美元。