Casemix classification payment for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient care, Thailand.

J Med Assoc Thai

Health Systems and Policy Programme, Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University, Pitsanuloke, Thailand.

Published: July 2010

Background: There is a need to develop other casemix classifications, apart from DRG for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient care payment mechanism in Thailand.

Objective: To develop a casemix classification for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient service.

Material And Method: The study began with developing a classification system, analyzing cost, assigning payment weights, and ended with testing the validity of this new casemix system. Coefficient of variation, reduction in variance, linear regression, and split-half cross-validation were employed.

Results: The casemix for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient services contained 98 groups. Two percent of them had a coefficient of variation of the cost of higher than 1.5. The reduction in variance of cost after the classification was 32%. Two classification variables (physical function and the rehabilitation impairment categories) were key determinants of the cost (adjusted R2 = 0.749, p = .001). Validity results of split-half cross-validation of sub-acute and non-acute inpatient service were high.

Conclusion: The present study indicated that the casemix for sub-acute and non-acute inpatient services closely predicted the hospital resource use and should be further developed for payment of the inpatients sub-acute and non-acute phase.

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