By: Anju Chithrakumar  Mar. 25, 2021

Forrest General Hospital reported a CMS Value Based Purchasing (VBP) adjustment factor of 0.9877 in the year 2021, which could result in an estimated penalty of $1,068,779. Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary (MSPB) accounts for 25% of overall VBP score and is a significant factor in driving VBP payments. MSPB costs include the costs from 3 days before hospitalization, index hospital stays, and 30 days post-discharge. The measure score of the Efficiency & Cost Reduction domain for Forrest General Hospital during the period was 0/10. Dexur is an approved purchaser of CMS Medicare claims data and based on our simulator, we estimate that Forrest General Hospital can avoid VBP penalties through reducing MSPB Cost by 12%.

By: Neha Thomas  Jul. 31, 2020

Dexur’s analysis of medicare claims of hospitals within a 10-mile radius of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, showed that Forrest General Hospital had the best value outcomes over a 90 day episode for Heart Failure, followed by Merit Health Wesley. Dexur’s value analysis tracks a patient’s episode of care from the date of admission for 90 days and includes the index hospitalizations, rehospitalization, home health, nursing home, and ED costs. Total cost of care data helps patients make appropriate choices and helps local ACOs, such as Hattiesburg Clinic ACO, make appropriate referral choices. The analysis was risk-adjusted, for alive and non-hospice patients and was done at the DRG level, specifically DRG 291: Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complication or Comorbidity (MCC), to adjust for complications and comorbidities.

By: Jeffrey Maser  Feb. 02, 2018

A Dexur study of 2016 inpatient Medicare claims data indicates that Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg accounted for more respiratory failure discharges than other major hospital in Mississippi with 199 discharges. North Mississippi Medical Center - Tupelo ranked 2nd with 188 discharges and Baptist Memorial Hospital - Desoto ranked 3rd with 187. These three hospitals were the only facilities in Mississippi to report over 150 respiratory failure discharges during 2016.

By: Emily Carpintero  Jan. 10, 2018

Reviewing a recent analysis by Dexur of CMS Medicare claims data for 2016, it showed that at Forrest General Hospital, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the top condition not present on admission (POA) associated with length of stay (LOS) outliers was cardiac arrhythmias, with a total of 215 excess days from LOS outliers. Dexur analyzed total Medicare inpatient discharges, total LOS outliers from discharges, and the total excess days from LOS outliers for every condition. LOS outliers are patients that exceed the average length of stay for a specific DRG-code. LOS outliers from conditions not present on admission are a significant metric that healthcare professionals utilize to proactively and efficiently provide patients with the care they need while minimizing hospital usage.