Inpatient hospital costs and length of stay for the treatment of affective and somatoform disorders – evidence from Germany

Figures & data

Figure 1 Overview of the calculation steps for determining the DRG-relevant case costs, of InEK.

Abbreviations: DRG, Diagnosis Related Group; InEK, Institute for the Hospital Reimbursement System.

Table 1 Cost center groups, cost category groups

Cost center groups	Cost category groups
Cost center group 1: ward	Cost category group 1: personnel costs physician services
Cost center group 2: intensive care unit	Cost category group 2: personnel costs nursing service
Cost center group 3: dialysis station	Cost category group 3: personnel costs, medical technical service/function service
Cost center group 4: operating rooms	Cost category group 4a: material cost medicinal products
Cost center group 5: anesthesia	Cost category group 4b: material costs medicinal products, direct costs
Cost center group 6: delivery ward	Cost category group 5: implant and grafts
Cost center group 7: cardiac diagnostics/therapy	Cost category group 6a: material costs
Cost center group 8: endoscopic diagnostics/therapy	Cost category group 6b: other medical material costs
Cost center group 9: radiology	Cost category group 7: personnel and material costs medical infrastructure
Cost center group 10: laboratories	Cost category group 8: personnel and non-material costs medical infrastructure
Cost center group 11: further diagnostics/therapy

Table 2 Overview: cost data in category groups in €

	Patients N	Cost category group							Costs mean	LoS mean
		1	2	3	4	6	7	8
Cost data in category groups in € for an interdisciplinary approach
Year 2008	21	546.1	717.43	238	70,71	440.8	248.6	1,166.6	3,388	15.1
Year 2009	36	803.7	758.4	265.8	77.2	526.5	287.78	1,361.6	4,081	15.8
Year 2010	42	992	947.4	239.4	77.4	556.5	303.5	1,610	4,727	14.7
Year 2011	48	1,086.3	976.2	283.4	66.2	359	338.1	1,880	4,996	15
Year 2012	58	1,164	936	329.7	75.1	396.3	488.3	1,689.3	5,078.3	14.7
Cost data in category groups in € (Data basis at the federal level)
Year 2009 (218 hospitals)	6,133	274.8	275.5	185.5	31.7	120.6	102	388.9	1,379.3	4.8
Year 2010 (225 hospitals)	5,499	348.2	300.6	191.8	32.5	143.7	133.9	425.8	1,576.5	4.7
Year 2011 (247 hospitals)	5,587	362.4	314.6	199.1	27.9	142.4	142.6	431.5	1,620.7	4.7

Abbreviation: LoS, length of stay.