Insights

This is an analysis of a synthetic data set created to simulate a hospital in Massachusetts. Over the span of years from Jan 2011 to Jan 2022, there were 27,900 encounters, 974 distinct patients, the average claim was $3,640, encounters averaged approximately 7 hours 18 minutes, and 68% of encounters were insured. While ambulatory encounters were most common and drove hourly encounter trends, inpatient encounters took the most time on average. The average encounter time of 7 hours 18 minutes was increased by a spike of encounters in February 2014, a year with encounters longer than average. Medicare, Medicaid, Humana, and Aetna were the top four insurance carriers, accounting for 63% of encounters. Other insurance carriers accounted for the other 10% of encounters. 37% of encounters, however, were uninsured. The top procedures were assessments of health and social needs, substance use, depression screening, and renal dialysis. 70% of patients were white, 17% were Black, 9% Asian, with the balance being other races. The hospital served patients from around the Boston Metropolitan Area.