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Using patient-reported data to identify upcoding by providers under activity-based financing

Thursday 4 February 2016, 2.00PM to 3.15pm

Speaker(s): Matt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, Manchester University

Abstract: Under activity based financing, providers can increase their revenue by upcoding patients into higher paid Diagnostic-Related Groups. Identification of this behaviour is limited by reliance on provider-reported data. We use data from the national Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) initiative and exploit an exogenous payment change within the English ‘Payment by Results’ system whereby the financial incentive to record a complication for patients undergoing knee revision replacements was removed. Our analysis of provider-reported data suggests that refining DRG payments based on secondary diagnoses has no unintended effect on hospitals. However, the same analysis of patient-reported data shows that hospitals responded to the removal of the upcoding incentives as expected, by reducing their coding of patients with complications.

Location: ARRC Auditorium A/RC/014

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Adrian Villasenor
Adrian Villasenor-Lopez
Dacheng Huo
Dacheng Huo

If you are not a member of University of York staff and are interested in attending the seminar, please contact Adrian Villasenor-Lopez or Dacheng Huo so that we can ensure we have sufficient space

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