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What are Revenue Centers?

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What are Revenue Centers?

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A revenue center is a revenue-producing division or unit within a hospital or other institution (e.g., emergency room, pathology). In the Inpatient SAF, charges that accrue for a beneficiary’s inpatient stay within each revenue center of the facility will be listed in aggregate by the code for the specific revenue center. The sum of the charges for each revenue center is listed in the Inpatient SAF; a listing of individual service charges that comprise that unit’s total for each beneficiary is not identified. A list of revenue centers codes can be found in the Revenue Center Table. In the MedPAR File, the revenue center charges for each inpatient stay are further aggregated into more generalized cost centers. The MedPAR file cost centers include: ICU (9 specific types), coronary care unit (6 specific types), pharmacy (separated by: general drugs and IV therapy, erythropoietin, blood clotting drugs, and combinations of the 3), transplant, radiology/oncology, diagnostic radiology, therap

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