You are CEO of Mission Medical Center and have been providing inpatient care to MoneyCare Medical Plan for the last year under a per diem payment contract that expires in 90 days. MoneyCare has expressed some concern that patient length of stay at your facility has gotten too long based on the incentive with per diems to keep a patient an extra day. Their utilization experts say that length of stay at your facility is 10% too high, and they are now negotiating for a flat rate per discharge based on a 10% reduction in length of stay. If you collected $16,812,812 from MoneyCare for 1,825 discharges, encompassing 10,038 patient days last year, what per discharge rate would you need to get to keep the same collected revenues as last year?
a) $9,213 per discharge
b) $10,134 per discharge
c) $8,291 per discharge
d) $10,038 per discharge