Quality management is the future.
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Health care cost statistics have always been suspect because of a lack of uniformity among patients. "Our patients are sicker" is the standard retort of those providers whose costs are higher. No doubt this is true in some cases, but it is unlikely in other cases. Consequently, there is a need to standardize cost statistics to reflect just how ill patients are. What is required is severity adjustment or severity indexing.