Discharge Data Program Fees
The cost for member hospitals to participate in the CHA Discharge Data Program is included in the annual CHA dues. The only cost member hospitals incur is the cost of gathering and submitting the data. The system saves hospitals the cost of reporting to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment registries.
Ad hoc Requests
The Discharge Data Program database can be used to design: patient origin studies, market share analysis, charge comparisons, length of stay studies, disease-specific volume reports, patient access analysis, crude and severity-adjusted mortality analysis. Data can be aggregated by many categories including hospital, DRG, severity level, payer type, age group, sex or zip code. The data can be used to compute variables such as average charge or median age. Fees for these reports are based on format and time required for data abstraction. CHA's data services staff can provide more information. Any organization has the option of purchasing ad hoc reports in hard copy, in electronic format, or on diskette. There are three components that make up the ad hoc fees: the hourly staff time, a per-record charge and the processing and handling fee. The fees for ad hoc reports are:
2009 Ad Hoc Reports Fees (New)
Member Hospitals
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| Non-members
| Cost per record
| Hourly staff rate
| P/H fee
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| Cost per record
| Hourly staff rate
| P/H fee
| $.008
| $65
| $50
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| $.02
| $140
| $50
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If Discharge Data is to be used in proprietary 3rd party products, including but not limited to extranets, intranets, internet, etc., contact CHA directly for pricing, information and restrcitions. Any organization can purchase the entire inpatient and/or outpatient surgery database for a calendar year. The database is available on a CD ROM in a 512 character ASCII format fo years 1993 forward. The number of patient records by year and the fees for the database on CD ROM are:
| | Total Discharge Data Program Patient Records
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| Inpatient Records
| Outpatient Surgery Records
| 2008
| 489,597
| 380,169
| 2007
| 483,101
| 382,162
| 2006
| 478,273
| 373,494
| 2005
| 474,072
| 382,490
| 2004
| 471,339
| 392,760
| 2003
| 473,981
| 382,816
| 2002
| 470,018
| 384,271
| 2001
| 455,365
| 367,339
| 2000
| 441,949
| 370,233
| 1999
| 427,944
| 349,767
| 1998
| 414,379
| 300,728
| 1997
| 402,615
| 279,080
| 1996
| 392,379
| 277,004
| 1995
| 387,772
| 259,663
| 1994
| 385,048
| 225,951
| 1993
| 388,047
| 191,487
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 | | | | 2009 CD ROM Fees
Member Hospitals Non-members
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| | | | Cost per record
| Processing Fee
| Cost per record
| Processing Fee
| $.006
| $125
| $.0175
| $125
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Adobe Acrobat Documents concerning Ad Hoc Request and CD-ROM Purchases
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