Hospital Casemix Protocol - Medibank Private Perspective.

The strategy of casemix.

While the political debate rages over whether casemix brings economic benefits for Australian health care, managers are observing a pragmatic change to their business and some are using casemix to understand and manage their business better. Casemix is a useful tool in this environment of increasing management accountability and process re-engineering. This article reviews casemix from a proces...

The funding of private hospitals in Australia.

Private hospitals are an essential component of Australia's complex mix of public and private health funding and provision. Private hospitals account for 34.3 per cent of all hospital separations, and over half (56.2%) of all same-day separations. The revenue (funding) of the sector approached $4 billion by 1998/99, and as a result of its recent rapid growth capital expenditure in the sector wa...

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An assessment of the effects of casemix funding on hospital utilisation: a Northern Territory perspective.

This article is concerned with the methodological issues of assessing the effects of casemix funding on hospital utilisation. Time-series analysis and intervention analysis are proposed to ascertain the effects. It was found there had been a decline in average length of stay and number of bed-days, an increase in weighted separations for teaching and non-teaching hospitals, and no apparent incr...

Casemix reimbursement: a Singapore Children's Hospital perspective.

INTRODUCTION Casemix reimbursement was introduced to Singapore in October 1999 using the Australian National Diagnosis Related Groups Version 3.1 (AN-DRGs 3.1). The possible impact of this classification system on a Singapore Children's Hospital is discussed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data on paediatric patients in KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) were drawn from the inhouse Datamart ware...