Attributing medical spending to conditions: A comparison of methods.
To understand the cost burden of medical care it is essential to partition medical spending into conditions. Two broad strategies have been used to measure disease-specific spending. The first attributes each medical claim to the condition that physicians list as its cause. The second decomposes tot...
Main Authors: | Kaushik Ghosh, Irina Bondarenko, Kassandra L Messer, Susan T Stewart, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B Rosen, David M Cutler |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237082 |
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