Potentially Preventable Spending Among High-Cost Medicare Patients: Implications for Healthcare Delivery
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Contribution of preventable acute care spending to total spending for high-cost Medicare patients.
IMPORTANCE A small proportion of patients account for the majority of US health care spending, and understanding patterns of spending among this cohort is critical to reducing health care costs. The degree to which preventable acute care services account for spending among these patients is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To quantify preventable acute care services among high-cost Medicare patient...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-020-05691-8