Coding Management and Compliance Unit 5 Assignment 1-2

8/10/2018 Vitalsource: Case Studies for Health Information Management

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CASE 2-29: Case Mix Index (CMI) Trends

You have a committee meeting tomorrow where you have to report on any patterns that are appearing in the case mix index (CMI) for your facility. You have been asked to compare your CMI to the national CMI graphically. The national CMI for 2011 was 1.3638, and for 2012 it was 1.4279. Use the data in Table 2-15 to review the CMI for 2011 and 2012.

1. Create an appropriate graph for this information. 2. What trend(s) do you see from the comparison? 3. What information would you want to know if you were analyzing the reasons behind the trends? 4. Give 3 possible reasons that would explain any trend(s).

Table 2-15: Quarterly Case Mix Index (CMI)

Quarterly CMI

Quarter CMI

First quarter 2011 1.2354

Second quarter 2011 1.2456

Third quarter 2011 1.2156

Fourth quarter 2011 1.4354

First quarter 2012 1.3541

Second quarter 2012 1.3251

Third quarter 2012 1.3296

Fourth quarter 2012 1.3357

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