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F. Average Cost Estimates

7. How do you create the inpatient cost categories?

The following is a list of accounting codes and becsection/treating specialty (TRTSP) codes for Fiscal Years 1998 - 2006. Visit our downloads section for a comprehensive list of codes used by year.

Category of Care CDR accounting codes Bedsection / TRTSP codes
Inpatient Medicine 1100*,1110, 1114,1117, 1118, 1119, 1120, 1130 1-12, 14-19, 24, 31, 34-35,75,83
Inpatient Rehabilitation 1100*, 1113 20, 41
Inpatient Blind Rehabilitation 1100*, 1115 21, 36
Inpatient Spinal Cord 1100*, 1116 22, 23
Inpatient Surgery 1200-1213, 1230 50-63, 65
Inpatient Psychiatry 1300*, 1310-1311,1314-1317, 1320, 1330, 1711+, 1712+, 1714+, 1717+ 25+, 26+, 28+, 33, 38-39, 70-71, 76-77, 79, 89, 91-94
Inpatient Substance Abuse 1312, 1313, 1713+, 1715+ 27+, 29+, 72-74, 84, 90
Inpatient Intermediate 1600, 1610, 1620 32, 40
Inpatient Domiciliary 1500, 1510, 1511, 1512-1513, 1520 37, 85-88
Inpatient Long Term 1400, 1410, 1415, 1420, 1425 42-47, 64, 66-69, 80, 81, 95-96
PRRTP+ 1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1717 25-29, 37-39
Notes

" * " indicates an overhead account whose costs were allocated proportionally across more than one care category.

+ " These CDR accounts and bedsections were assigned to psychiatry and substance abuse at medical centers that did not have an official PRRTP program. The medical centers with PRRTP programs in FY03 were: 459 463 501 504 515 516 518 523 528 541 546 549 554 555 556 561 568 573 586 589 590 595 598 620 622 631 637 656 658 662 663 676 678 687 and 689.

Community Nursing Home stays are identified by TRTSP= (44 or 80) and Statyp=42.

Downloads
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    Date: 11/9/2004 | Size: 50Kb

Reviewed/Updated Date: November 21, 2007