In the second of two articles on Case Mix Groups (CMGs) and Resource Intensity Weights
(RIWs) the authors describe how these measures are used to adjust the funding of hospitals …

In the first of two articles on the subject, the authors explain what Case Mix Groups (CMGs)
and Resource Intensity Weights (RIWs) are and how they are used. The former categorize …

Hospitals are commonly compared with each other within diagnosis-related group (DRG)
categories. Administrators infer that hospitals with a higher cost per case within a DRG are …

Objectives. In light of ongoing discussions about health care policy, this study offered a
method of calculating costs at Manitoba hospitals that compared relative costliness of …

Present political pressures for hospital cost containment appear to make some form of case-
specific reimbursement system inevitable. For such a system to be able to control hospital …

In this paper, we establish relationships between hospital cost per case and the
independent variables: case mix complexity, case mix severity, factor input prices, and …

This article first summarizes six patient-based approaches to measuring case mix. It reviews
the strengths, weaknesses and controversies of the most developed measure: diagnosis …

The construct of Resource Intensity Weights (RIWs) contains implicit financial incentives if
they are used for hospital funding purposes. This paper compares the RIW (funding) credit to …

Describing hospitals quantitatively in terms of the numbers and types of patients treated (ie,
the patient case mix) offers the prospect of improved multihospital and longitudinal …

Hospital Cost Variation and Case-Mix Differences Page 1 HOSPITAL COST VARIATION AND
CASE-MIX DIFFERENCES 24. LaBarre, W. (1958) 'The Patient And His Families', Casework …