Variation in accountable care organization spending and sensitivity to risk adjustment: Implications for benchmarking

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 440-448

  Rose, Sherri ^a   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a   Michael McWilliams, J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; CASE MIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; AGED; BENCHMARKING; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960337572     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1026     Document Type: Article

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