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51 to 53 of 53 Research Studies DisplayedO'Donnell BE, Schneider KM, Brooks JM
Standardizing Medicare payment information to support examining geographic variation in costs.
This paper describes a method for standardizing claim payments, and demonstrates the difference in actual versus standardized payments by geographic region. It found that without standardization of payments, certain areas of the country are mischaracterized as either high or low healthcare resource-consuming areas.
AHRQ-funded; HS019574; HS019440.
Citation: O'Donnell BE, Schneider KM, Brooks JM .
Standardizing Medicare payment information to support examining geographic variation in costs.
Medicare Medicaid Res Rev 2013 Sep 10;3(3). doi: 10.5600/mmrr.003.03.a06..
Keywords: Medicare, Healthcare Costs, Hospitalization, Hospitals
Steiner CA, Friedman B
AHRQ Author: Steiner CA, Friedman B
Hospital utilization, costs, and mortality for adults with multiple chronic conditions, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2009.
The investigators provided a national estimate across all payers of the distribution and cost of selected chronic conditions for hospitalized adults in 2009, stratified by demographic characteristics. They found that there were approximately 28 million adult discharges from US hospitals other than those related to pregnancy and maternity; 39% had 2 to 3 multiple chronic conditions (MCC), and 33% had 4 or more. They concluded that their descriptive analysis of multipayer inpatient data provides a robust national view of the substantial use and costs among adults hospitalized with MCC.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Steiner CA, Friedman B .
Hospital utilization, costs, and mortality for adults with multiple chronic conditions, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2009.
Prev Chronic Dis 2013 Apr 25;10:E62. doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120292.
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Keywords: Chronic Conditions, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Hospitalization, Mortality
Braithwaite S, Friedman B, Mutter R
AHRQ Author: Friedman B, Mutter R
Microsimulation of financial impact of demand surge on hospitals: the H1N1 influenza pandemic of fall 2009.
Microsimulation was used to assess the financial impact on hospitals of a surge in influenza admissions in advance of the H1N1 pandemic in the fall of 2009 with the goal of estimating net income and losses of a response of filling unused hospital bed capacity proportionately and postponing elective admissions. They concluded that aggregate and distributional results did not suggest that a policy of promising additional financial compensation to hospitals in anticipation of the surge in flu cases was necessary.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Braithwaite S, Friedman B, Mutter R .
Microsimulation of financial impact of demand surge on hospitals: the H1N1 influenza pandemic of fall 2009.
Health Serv Res 2013 Apr;48(2 Pt 2):735-52. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12041.
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Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Hospitalization, Influenza