Table 1. Comparison of Sending and Receiving Transfer Admissions and All Medicare Admissions, by Selected Characteristics.
| Selected Characteristics | Admissions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Sending | Receiving | All Medicare | |
| Average Stay | |||
| Total Days | 5.7 | 11.8 | 8.8 |
| Intensive Care Unit | 1.1 | 2.1 | 0.7 |
| Coronary Care Unit | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
| Average Case DRG Weight | 1.130 | 2.178 | 1.292 |
| Outlier Cases | In Percent | ||
| Total | 1.6 | 9.2 | 3.9 |
| Day | 0.6 | 6.3 | 3.0 |
| Cost | 1.0 | 2.9 | 0.9 |
| Average Outlier Days | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Average Number of Diagnoses | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
| Average Number of Procedures | 0.9 | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Percent Surgeries | 44.2 | 84.4 | 60.7 |
| Average Charge | In Dollars | ||
| Total | 4,820 | 13,815 | 6,478 |
| Ancillary | 3,094 | 9,747 | 4,055 |
| Intensive Care Unit | 501 | 1,144 | 359 |
| Coronary Care Unit | 309 | 635 | 169 |
| Operating Room | 101 | 1,183 | 415 |
NOTE: DRG is diagnosis-related group.
SOURCE: Buczko, W., Health Care Financing Administration, 1993.