Control charge compression by knowing your costs
APCs Weekly Monitor, February 13, 2009
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Editor’s note: See “Charge compression basics” in the February Briefings on APCs for a review of this complex subject.
It all starts with hospitals’ cost accounting, which leaves much to be desired, says William L. Malm, ND, RN, partner at Health Revenue Integrity Services in
Nothing confounds costs and reporting data as much as the traditional practice of arbitrarily increasing hospital prices by a fixed percentage every year, says Glenn Krauss, RHIA BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, PCS, FCS, C-CDIS, senior coding and chargemaster consultant at QHR in Brentwood, TN. This can quickly distort any charge compression formula.
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