title: Compare your Medicare utilization to these geographic, DRG-based benchmarks.
abstract: Data File: Medicare inpatient utilization benchmarks. Actuarial consultants Milliman & Robertson find 53% of Medicare inpatient bed days nationally are medically unnecessary or better spent in other health care settings. Here are benchmark data on inpatient admission and bed days per 1,000 members in optimally managed health systems.
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D019985:Benchmarking; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review