By: Emily Carpintero  Feb. 01, 2018

Dexur's recent analysis of CMS Medicare claims data for 2013 through 2016 exhibited that Montefiore Medical Center’s discharge rate to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for DRG-896 (alcohol, drug abuse or dependence without rehabilitation therapy without major complication or comorbidity) was the lowest of all major hospitals in the New York City Metropolitan area, at 25%. SNF discharges are an important metric that healthcare professionals can use to determine the demographics of the population of patients a hospital serves, as it may reflect on the general state patients are in when discharged from a specific hospital. Below is a graph highlighting the four hospitals included in this analysis and their SNF discharge rates for DRG-896.

By: Emily Carpintero  Oct. 24, 2017

Pulmonology is the area of medicine that focuses on the health and treatment of the respiratory system. This area of study has expanded over time and ranges from common conditions like bronchitis to long-term conditions like asthma and possibly fatal conditions pertaining to lung cancer. Our Dexur team of analysts extracted the top three highest volume Medicare inpatient hospitals pertaining to procedures under the category of pulmonology: Montefiore Hospital, North Shore University Hospital and Vassar Brothers Hospital.