For each hospital, the tool gives the number of claims and an estimate of how much its billing exceeds the norm based on a user-defined per diem rate. Switching between baselines is as easy as clicking button. For per diem payors, Health Data Desk analyzes each provider's typical length of stay. The median length of stay for the rest of this payor's claims is only 5 days. The color of each point represents how statistically unusual that payor's behavior is.
Red points have the most extreme lengths of stay.
The Per Diem Distribution tool identifies hospitals that, for a given disease category, keep patients longer than the baseline. The Excess Days function calculates, for selected hospitals, the difference between the number of actual hospital days and the number of days expected from baseline data. A client-supplied per diem dollar value converts the excess days to a dollar value opportunity. The Per Diem Trend tool tracks changes in a hospital's length of stay distribution over time. Individual hospital trends are compared with appropriate baselines.