Predictive modeling of U.S. health care spending in late life

2017 © The Authors. That one-quarter of Medicare spending in the United States occurs in the last year of life is commonly interpreted as waste. But this interpretation presumes knowledge of who will die and when. Here we analyze how spending is distributed by predicted mortality, based on a machine...

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Main Authors: Einav, Liran, Finkelstein, Amy, Mullainathan, Sendhil, Obermeyer, Ziad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135852

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