Case Mix, Costs, and Outcomes Differences between Faculty and Community Services in a University Hospital

Victor Fuchs

Chapter 17 in Health Economics and Policy:Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs, 2018, pp 193-208 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: To gain insight into the possible consequences of prospective payment for university hospitals, we studied 2025 admissions to the faculty and community services of a university hospital, measuring differences in case mix, costs, and mortality in the hospital. The faculty service had more of the patients with costly diagnoses, but even after adjustment for diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), costs were 11 percent higher on the faculty service (95 percent confidence limits, 4 to 18 percent). The percentage differential was greatest for diagnostic costs. The differential was particularly large — 70 percent (95 percent confidence limits, 33 to 107 percent) — for patients with a predicted probability of death of 0.25 or greater.The in-hospital mortality rate was significantly lower on the faculty service after adjustment for case mix and patient characteristics (P < 0.05); the difference was particularly large for patients in the high-death-risk category. Comparision of a matched sample of 51 pairs of admissions from the high-death-risk category confirmed the above results with respect to costs and in-hospital mortality, but follow-up revealed that the survival rates were equal for the two services at nine months after discharge.The effect of prospective payment on the cost of care will be closely watched; we conclude that it will also be important to monitor the effect on outcomes, including hospital mortality rates.

Keywords: Health; Medical Care; Health Policy; Economics; Health Care Reform; Health Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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