In the fight against Covid-19, developed countries and developing countries diverge in success. This drew attention to the discussion of how different health systems and different levels of health spending are effective in combating Covid-19. In this...
INTRODUCTION: in Rwanda, the estimated out-of-pocket health expenditure has been increased from 24.46% in 2000 to 26% in 2015. Despite the existence of guideline in estimation of out-of-pocket health expenditures provided by WHO (2018), the estimatio...
IMPORTANCE: Knowledge about use of health care services (health care utilization) and expenditures among unauthorized immigrant populations is uncertain because of limitations in ascertaining legal status in population data.
International journal of environmental research and public health
Oct 5, 2020
It is estimated that approximately 10% of healthcare system expenditures are wasted due to medical fraud and abuse. In the medical area, the combination of thousands of drugs and diseases make the supervision of health care more difficult. To quantif...
IMPORTANCE: Quantifying patient-physician cost conversations is challenging but important as out-of-pocket spending by US patients increases and patients are increasingly interested in discussing costs with their physicians.
BACKGROUND: Value-based payment programs in orthopedics, specifically primary total hip arthroplasty (THA), present opportunities to apply forecasting machine learning techniques to adjust payment models to a specific patient or population. The objec...
BACKGROUND: This paper studies the temporal consistency of health care expenditures in a large state Medicaid program. Predictive machine learning models were used to forecast the expenditures, especially for the high-cost, high-need (HCHN) patients.
BACKGROUND: Value-based and patient-specific care represent 2 critical areas of focus that have yet to be fully reconciled by today's bundled care model. Using a predictive naïve Bayesian model, the objectives of this study were (1) to develop a mach...
Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy
Jul 17, 2017
BACKGROUND: Anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) are serological biomarkers associated with early, rapidly progressing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including more severe disease and joint damage. ACPA testing has become a routine tool for RA di...
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