ARPOB (Average Revenue Per Occupied Bed)

ARPOB (Average Revenue Per Occupied Bed) is calculated as total inpatient revenue for a period divided by the number of occupied bed-days in that same period. It is a general hospital-finance metric used across the industry rather than a figure defined by any single official body, so different hospitals and analysts can vary slightly in exactly which revenue lines they include in the numerator.

Why it matters in a hospital

ARPOB is a quick way to see how much revenue each occupied bed is actually generating, which is far more informative than raw total revenue alone when comparing periods, wards, or hospitals of different sizes to each other. It is commonly used alongside bed occupancy rate and average length of stay to get a fuller picture of how efficiently inpatient capacity is being used financially, not just how full the wards are on a given day. Because it blends both pricing and utilisation into a single figure, a change in ARPOB over time is worth investigating rather than assumed to be good or bad on its own — a rising ARPOB driven by genuinely better care can look identical, on paper, to one driven simply by higher prices.

How Trisvio handles it

Trisvio does not report a field called "ARPOB" by name, but both inputs the formula needs — inpatient revenue from the billing and daily-collection reports, and occupied bed-days from ADT and the bed board — are available in Trisvio's own reports, so a hospital can calculate ARPOB directly from numbers it already has, without exporting to a separate spreadsheet.