Attributing medical spending to conditions: A comparison of methods.

To understand the cost burden of medical care it is essential to partition medical spending into conditions. Two broad strategies have been used to measure disease-specific spending. The first attributes each medical claim to the condition that physicians list as its cause. The second decomposes tot...

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Main Authors: Kaushik Ghosh, Irina Bondarenko, Kassandra L Messer, Susan T Stewart, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B Rosen, David M Cutler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237082