Hospital Costs > In Louisiana > Southern Surgical Hospital, procedure costs
| Procedure | Discharges | Avg Covered Charges | Avg Total Payment | Avg Medicare Payment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Rank | Amount | Rank | Amount | Rank | Amount | Rank | |
| Back & Neck Proc Exc Spinal Fusion W/O Cc/Mcc | 15 | 74 / 5 | $37.857,10 | 427 / 7 | $6.399,33 | 5 / 2 | $3.564,73 | 5 / 2 |
| Major Joint Replacement Or Reattachment Of Lower Extremity W/O Mcc | 101 | 463 / 20 | $68.945,90 | 1958 / 38 | $13.716,80 | 1199 / 42 | $11.384,00 | 1170 / 39 |
| O.R. Procedures For Obesity W/O Cc/Mcc | 104 | 3 / 1 | $44.451,80 | 216 / 5 | $8.643,04 | 20 / 3 | $6.813,02 | 20 / 2 |
| Spinal Fusion Except Cervical W/O Mcc | 20 | 174 / 15 | $103.670,00 | 771 / 14 | $25.856,80 | 760 / 18 | $23.771,50 | 756 / 23 | Total 4 procedures | 240 | discharges |
Source: Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Inpatient for FY2014
Average Covered Charges: The provider's average charge for services covered by Medicare for all discharges in the MS-DRG. These will vary from hospital to hospital because of differences in hospital charge structures.
Average Total Payments: The average total payments to all providers for the MS-DRG including the MSDRG amount, teaching, disproportionate share, capital, and outlier payments for all cases. Also included in average total payments are co-payment and deductible amounts that the patient is responsible for and any additional payments by third parties for coordination of benefits.
Average Medicare Payments: The average amount that Medicare pays to the provider for Medicare's share of the MS-DRG. Average Medicare payment amounts include the MS-DRG amount, teaching, disproportionate share, capital, and outlier payments for all cases. Medicare payments DO NOT include beneficiary co-payments and deductible amounts nor any additional payments from third parties for coordination of benefits. Note: In general, Medicare FFS claims with dates-of-service or dates-of-discharge on or after April 1, 2013, incurred a 2 percent reduction in Medicare payment. This is in response to mandatory across-the-board reductions in Federal spending, also known as sequestration
Hospital Rank: We have calculated the rank for each procedure within a hospital. The left number is the national ranking, the right one is the state ranking. For discharges, ranking is from highest # of discharges to lower (hospital with highest number of discharges ranks first). For charges and payments, lowest means a higher ranking.