Healthcare
Length of Stay Benchmarks
For over 42 years, payers have relied on Thomson Reuters industry standard LOS benchmarks to understand complex length of stay (LOS) resource use in order to make appropriate care-related decisions quickly and effectively. Used to manage 60 million American covered lives, LOS norms help to pre-certify and pre-authorize plan members. Cost savings can be identified by analyzing LOS data concurrently, and significant trends can be seen by comparing against external norms.
Benefits
- Thomson Reuters LOS norms let managed care companies, third-party administrators, and Medicare and Medicaid providers compare actual LOS with regional, national, and patient-specific norms based on real experience. "Apples-to-apples" comparisons with specific payers and populations help identify real cost savings.
- Thomson Reuters LOS norms, built from the largest empirical database of its kind, use only actual experience encompassing more than 20 million inpatient discharges a year. Annual updates allow for trending experience and performance over time.
- Comprehensive benchmarks include specialty norms (DRG, pediatric, psychiatric, commercial payer only, geriatric, Medicare, Medicaid, and Worker's Compensation) at regional or national levels. Because the benchmarks are provided for DRG and ICD-9-CM procedure codes at the 10th through 99th percentile, new LOS standards can be continuously set to improve performance over time.
- Thomson Reuters LOS norms can be used as stand-alone reference tools or integrated seamlessly into any decision support system. They enhance reimbursement review, as well as determination and adjudication and claims processing, allowing you to confidently and efficiently make decisions and develop future strategies.
For more information, or if you would like to place an order, please call 877-LOS-FILE (877.567.3453) or send an e-mail to peter.may@thomsonreuters.com.
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