Outpatient Resource Costing Study. Volume 1. Final Report. Volume 2. Appendices

摘要

The study attempts to determine the reliability of the resource costingmethodology for approximately 500 outpatient procedures and visits. The focus is on the resource costs of CPT-4 coded procedures and ICD9 coded medical visits as they are catagorized in the Ambulatory Patient Group patient classification system. Data was collected from a geographically dispersed random sample of hospital outpatient departments, ambulatory centers and physician offices. Only facility costs were collected. The study demonstrates the feasibility of resource costing as a method of identifying the costs for the same procedure across settings. Data that identify the components of direct and indirect costs are presented. Analyses of these costs are included in this report. These also include analysis of procedure combinations and comparisons of resource costs to other relevant measures including charges and to reported costs.