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- Title
Spending and service use among people with the fifteen most costly medical conditions, 1997.
- Authors
Cohen, Joel W; Krauss, Nancy A
- Abstract
This study addresses the Institute of Medicine's recommendation that AHRQ use MEPS data to identify a set of priority conditions to inform efforts at improving quality of care. Using MEPS data we identify the fifteen most expensive conditions in the U.S. in 1997: chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, and acute conditions such as trauma, pneumonia, and infectious disease. Comorbidities were also associated with increased expenses. Type-of-service and source-of-payment distributions varied considerably across this set of conditions. Our findings highlight some of the challenges likely to be encountered in efforts to reform the current system.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2003, Vol 22, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0278-2715
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.22.2.129