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terms of their contracts with EOPYY, the prices of medical materials and drug
reimbursement.
The clinical dataset concerns the period 01-01-2017 to 31-12-2017 and
has 6379 samples that correspond to insured citizens, pensioners and the
protected members of their families who have retrieved health services from
the 82 regional Clinics (Branches) around Greece with respect to each
corresponding Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). In this work, we are particularly
interested in investigating the Clinics behavior with respect to their hospital
expenditure. One would expect that Clinics should always remain in a control

Figure 1: Average expenditure per Clinic.

Figure 2: Count of DRGs per Clinic.

state and follow a particular pattern regarding their total expenditure taking
into consideration the total number of patients (individual DRGs) they serve.
A Clinic which would exceed the control limits defined by a set of parameters
should be investigated further and in more detail, a process that usually

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