Open AccessDrivers of High-cost Medical Complexity in a Medicaid Population
Author(s) -
David Labby,
Bill Wright,
Lauren Broffman,
Megan Holtorf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001261
Subject(s) - medicaid , population , health care , odds , healthcare cost and utilization project , environmental health , medicine , substance abuse , odds ratio , poison control , gerontology , psychiatry , logistic regression , pathology , economics , economic growth
Efforts to improve outcomes for the 10% of patients using two thirds of health care expenditures increasingly include addressing social determinants. Empiric evidence is needed to identify the highest impact nonmedical drivers of medical complexity and cost.