DRG-based cost management at Norwest Corporation.
A large financial holding company, Norwest has been studying employee health benefit utilization, provider performance and more by comparing actual experience to projected norms using a DRG-based methodology. The Hewitt Associates Consultant who works with the Company explains how this process has revealed new facts crucial to health cost management planning.
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