title: DRG-based cost management at Norwest Corporation.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007345:Insurance Claim Review; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008910:Minnesota