Atwell Computer Medical Innovations, Inc.
ACMI
U.S. Patent No. 7,433,880
Creation of This Run
- INCLUDE
- MedicareProvNum = Data field name for provider facilities
- USER = The user supplies the data values
- 010021,010016 = The two provider facility data codes
- EXCLUDE
- SurgNum = Data field name for number of procedures
- USER = The user supplies the data value(s)
- 0 = Exclude records with no procedure
- CLASSIFY
- MedicareProvNum = Data field name for provider facilities
- ALL = Print out one line for ALL provider facilities included
- CLASSIFY
- SurgProcedure1 = Data field name for Principal procedure
- TOP = Sort in descending order
- 3 = The number of procedures to print in the report
- DEPENDENT
- CoveredCharges
- >-1 = Include all records, even those with zero Covered Charges
- 3 = Sort on TOTAL_K* (total covered charges in thousands)
Using This Run
Since the MedicareProvNum is the primary key for the database, the ACMI software goes directly to the two provider facilities included and reads only 5419 records. Excluding records with no procedure coded ( SurgNum equal zero) leaves only 2937 records in the report.
ACMI sorts the 2937 records. Since the user is requesting only the top 3 procedures for each provider facility, 533 records are shown in this report.
The user may ask for any number of top (e.g., 10, 25, 73 or 100) for each hospital. For lack of space here, the top 3 were requested. The user may request that the sort be based on: NUMBER - the greatest number of cases; MEAN - cases with the highest average costs; TOTAL_K* - cases with the highest total costs in thousands; and S.D. - cases with the highest variation among the individual cases.