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Patient Origin
All information in
this report is from the Medicare Hospital Market Service Area
File which is updated annually by CMS. The file includes
Medicare discharges, patient days, and gross charges by ZIP code
for each hospital. Data are based on 100% of all Medicare
fee-for-service claims during a calendar year.
The ten ZIP
codes with the highest number of Medicare discharges are
detailed and statistics for all other ZIP codes are summarized for a
hospital:
- The
percentage increase or decrease in Medicare discharges is calculated
by comparison with the hospital's discharges during the
prior year.
- The market
share is calculated by comparison with all other hospitals
having Medicare discharges from the ZIP code (i.e. the hospital's
discharges from a zip code as a percentage of total
discharges to all hospitals from the zip code).
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