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Cost Containment in Infection Control: DRGs and Outpatient Antibiotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter A. Gross  and
Paul B. Iannini
Paul B. Iannini*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut
*
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Danbury Hospital, 24 Hospital Avenue, Danbury, CT 06810
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The advent of a non-cost reimbursement system has served as an impetus for the re-examination of the methods by which infectious processes are treated. This system prospectively sets payment rates for illnesses that require hospitalization. Diagnostic-Related Groups (DRGs) are the basis of this new system. DRGs attempt to link reimbursement to the broad category of clinical diagnosis by separating diagnoses into nearly 500 groups; each with a defined reimbursement rate. This rate does not substantially vary with regard to the length of hospital stay, the number of diagnostic tests performed or the cost of therapy employed.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 5 , May 1986 , pp. 289 - 292
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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