Comment by john-h-k
1 month ago
A 1 month average age difference is not medically significant.
They had more bloodstream infections yep. Surgical infections was NOT statistically significant. And again, mortality went down!!
The “dumping cases” thing is incredibly suspicious. So they’re so motivated by money that they … don’t keep patients who would spend a lot? On top of that, the 30 day mortality doesn’t show an increase, which is what you’d see if they dumped deaths onto other hospitals.
Medicare reimburses by DRG, which is a payment for the average cost patients with that diagnosis and comorbidities have.
Usually those hospitals send the patients they expect to become to cost more than the DRG Reimbursement (Complications, too old, too many comorbidities) off to public hospitals. At least that's how it works in Germany. At the same time, they are very aggressive with upcoding their diagnoses to get more reimbursement.