Adjusting case mix payment amounts for inaccurately reported comorbidity data

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-73

  Sutherland, Jason M ^a   Hamm, Jeremy ^b   Hatcher, Jeff ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case mix; Clinical data; Data quality; DRG; Payment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ONTARIO; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS;

EID: 77349086008     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-009-9112-0     Document Type: Article

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