By: Barsha Nandy  Jul. 02, 2020

Dexur’s analysis of medicare claims of hospitals within a 50-mile radius of Dover, DE, showed that Beebe Healthcare-Lewes, Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus, and Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus had the best value outcomes over a 90-day episode for COPD. The episode of care tracks a patient journey from the date of admission for 90 days and includes the index hospitalizations, rehospitalization, home health, nursing home, and ED costs. The total cost of care data helps patients make appropriate choices and helps local ACOs such as eBrightHealth ACO, and UM ACO to make appropriate referrals choices. The analysis was risk-adjusted, for alive and non-hospice patients and was done at the DRG level, specifically DRG 190: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease With Major Complication Or Comorbidity (MCC), to adjust for complications and comorbidities.