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Benchmark Yourself Against These LOS Stats

Published on Fri Sep 06, 2013

Are your length of stay stats for non-cancer patients making you stick out like a sore thumb to medical reviewers? Find out by checking Palmetto GBA’s latest NCLOS rates based on claims from the first half of 2013. For example: Alzheimer’s patients have the longest average LOS at 220 days for the HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor’s entire region, Palmetto says. [...]
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