Unit 4 Assignment 2: Case Study: Global Memorial Hospital Joint Replacement Readmissions For the Unit 4 Assignment 2, you will be putting into practice your knowledge of data analysis and charting. Yo

HI230 Qu ality Assurance and Statistics in Health Information: Unit 4 Assignment 2 Background Information The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) set a target percentage readmission rate for various types of patients, including Total Joint Replacement. The target rate for Total Joint Replacement is 4% for the current year. The Problem The readmission rate for Total Joint Replacement at Global Mem orial Hospital is 10.42 % with 50 out of 480 Total Joint Replacement patients being readmitted within the past six months. This rate is 6.42 % higher than the CMS target and will result in the hospital being required to pay a penalty to CMS. The breakdown of cases by surgeon is as follows: Dr. Chill – 41 cases Dr. Hugs – 146 cases Dr. Wagoner – 105 cases Dr. Franks – 188 cases Total = 480 Cases The Service Line Director of Orthopaedics has reached out to the Director of Health Information Management for assistance. The Project The Director of Health Information Management had a coder review each of the charts to determine the reason for readmission. Down load the HI230 Unit 4 Assignment 2 Data Set to access the data for this assignment. Using this data , review only those patients who were readmitted , and complete an analysis of the following: • By Readmission Reason • By Surgeon • By Financial Class • By BMI • By Age You are to create a professional presentation outlining your findings (including graphs) to the Director of Health Information Management . This may be submitted either as a Word Excel workbook .xlsx file, or as a M S PowerPoint .pptx file .