Surgery

Research on surgery published by scientists at Columbus Children's Hospital

Published in Managed Care Law Weekly, October 7th, 2007

According to a study from the United States, "We set out to examine whether pediatric trauma care resulted in a financial burden. We reviewed financial data for children with an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, injury diagnosis code over 2 years at an urban level I pediatric trauma center."

"We divided inpatients into length of stay categories, and profit or loss was calculated for each payor/length of stay category. These figures were then used to estimate revenue for each hospital based upon their patients payor/length of stay distribution that was obtained from the KID database. Our payor-based outpatient revenue figures were also applied to...

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Source: Managed Care Law Weekly (2007-10-07)

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