Hospital Inpatient Discharge Rates, Average Charges, Average Payments, and Charge-to-Payment Ratios by DRG - U.S., Northwest, and Washington State - FY2011

data.wa.gov | Last Updated 20 Jun 2013

The dataset contains hospital inpatient discharge rates, charges, covered payments, charge-to-payment ratios for the 100 most common DRGs among hospitals in the Medicare Prospective Payment System.

Tags: discharge rate, drg, hospital charges, covered payment, charge-to-payment ratio

This dataset has the following 13 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
DRG Definitondrg_definitontext
U.S. - Discharges per 100,000u_s_discharges_per_100_000numberDischarges per 100,000 population in the U.S.
U.S. - Average Chargesu_s_average_chargesnumberAverage charges per discharge in U.S.
U.S. - Average Covered Paymentsu_s_average_covered_paymentsnumberAverage covered payments per discharge in U.S.
U.S. - Charge-to-Payment Ratiou_s_charge_to_payment_rationumberCharge-to-payment ratio in U.S.
NW - Discharges per 100,000nw_discharges_per_100_000numberDischarges per 100,000 population in the Northwest region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington)
NW - Average Chargesnw_average_chargesnumberAverage charges per discharge in the Northwest region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington)
NW - Average Covered Paymentsnw_average_covered_paymentsnumberAverage covered payments per discharge in the Northwest region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington)
NW - Charge-to-Payment Rationw_charge_to_payment_rationumberCharge-to-payment ratio in the Northwest region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
WA - Discharges per 100,000wa_discharges_per_100_000numberDischarges per 100,000 population in Washington
WA - Average Chargeswa_average_chargesnumberAverage charges per discharge in Washington
WA - Average Covered Paymentswa_average_covered_paymentsnumberAverage covered payments per discharge in Washington
WA - Charge-to-Payment Ratiowa_charge_to_payment_rationumberCharge-to-payment ratio in Washington