Table A.2.
Top 10 UB-04 discharge status code pairs for hospital encounters (Index encounter) with a subsequent all-cause readmission within 30 days (Readmit encounter) in the UHC CDB (2006–2011, all hospitals): overall count with percent. Pairs with gray background represent those for which the index encounter’s discharge code represents a lower intensity of post-discharge care than the readmit’s discharge code.
| UB-04 discharge status code description (code in parentheses) | Number of pairs |
Percent of pairs |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Index encounter | Readmit encounter | ||
| Home self-care (01) | Home self-care (01) | 909,219 | 46.2 |
| Home health service (06) | Home health service (06) | 151,247 | 7.7 |
| Home self-care (01) | Home health service (06) | 140,109 | 7.1 |
| Nursing facility Medicare (03) | Nursing facility Medicare (03) | 119,585 | 6.1 |
| Home health service (06) | Home self-care (06) | 96,595 | 4.9 |
| Other rehab facility (62) | Home health service (06) | 44,924 | 2.3 |
| Other rehab facility (62) | Home self-care (01) | 40,501 | 2.1 |
| Home self-care (01) | Nursing facility Medicare (03) | 40,204 | 2.0 |
| Home health service (06) | Nursing facility Medicare (03) | 29,932 | 1.5 |
| Home self-care (01) | Expired in hospital not Medicare or CHAMPUS Hospice (20) | 28,297 | 1.4 |
| Grand total | 1,600,613 | 81.3 | |