Segmenting high-cost Medicare patients into potentially actionable cohorts

Healthcare

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 62-67

  Joynt, Karen E ^a,c   Figueroa, Jose F ^a,c   Beaulieu, Nancy ^b   Wild, Robert C ^b   Orav, E John ^a   Jha, Ashish K ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex populations; Disease management; Frailty; High cost; Medicare; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMORBIDITY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIPLE CHRONIC CONDITIONS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; COST; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; PATIENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSONS; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MEDICARE; PATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85007424284     PISSN: 22130764     EISSN: 22130772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2016.11.002     Document Type: Article

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