This document outlines a case study analyzing hospital charges. It aims to determine if there is a relationship between charges, physicians, insurance type, and length of stay. The analysis will compare charges for managed care vs commercial insurance, perform descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing, and conduct regression analysis to model the relationships between charges, physicians, insurance type, and length of stay.

1. Outline - Case 42: Hospital Charges
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The research is done to find the solutions for some of questions like; the relationship between the
doctors and their charges, the type of insurance having its effects on its customers and if there is
any relationship between charges, payor and physicians.
II. INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this report is to prepare a data model based on some of the questions like;
whether the patient is charged more based on the insurance, or whether the physicians have
different charges for their patients, and/or if the charges (CHRGS) are related to days (DAYS),
physicians (PHYS) and/or payor (PAYOR).
III. ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY
1. Comparison between Managed Care Insurance and Commercial Insurance
2. Descriptive Statistics
3. Hypothesis Testing
4. Confidence Interval/Regression Analysis
5. Linear and multiple
IV. CONCLUSION
V. APPENDIX
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