Statistics budget: changing intensity. How would the estimate of Medicaid/Self-Pay encounters change if ZMG Hospitalist Practice estimated that its Medicaid/Self-Pay admissions made up 3% of the encounters and the Medicaid/Self-Pay follow-up encounters made up 9% of the encounters instead of the distribution of visits by intensity shown in Exhibit I.lb? Changing intensity. ZMG Hospitalist Practice
		Medicaid/Self-Pay encounters for 20X2.: 5% growth January through December.
		Step 1. Forecasting total encounters.
			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
	A	Total encounters for 20X1	5,007	4,676	5,044	4,686	4,480	4,596	4,697	4,833	4,653	4,923	4,734	5,202	57,531
	B	Projected growth	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%
	C	Total encounters for 20X2	5,257	4,910	5,296	4,920	4,704	4,826	4,932	5,075	4,886	5,169	4,971	5,462	60,408
		Step 2. Estimating intensity and payor category percentages.
			Medicaid/Self-Pay
	D	Admissions	3%
	E	Follow-up	9%
	F	Total	12%
		20X2 estimated encounters by type for patients with Medicaid/Self-pay insurance.
			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
	G	Admissions	158	147	159	148	141	145	148	152	147	155	149	164	1,813
	H	Follow-up	473	442	477	443	423	434	444	457	440	465	447	492	5,437
	I	Total	631	589	636	591	564	579	592	609	587	620	596	656	7,250