Adjusting Risk Adjustment — Accounting for Variation in Diagnostic Intensity
In the U.S. health care system, payments and performance measures are often adjusted to account for differences in patients’ baseline health and demographic characteristics. The idea behind such risk adjustments is to create a level playing field, so that providers aren’t penalized for serving sicke...
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New England Journal of Medicine
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114281 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-1573 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-1505 |