AIMC Topic: Medicare

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Patient Coded Severity and Payment Penalties Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: A Machine Learning Approach.

Medical care
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine variation in hospital responses to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's expansion of allowable secondary diagnoses in January 2011 and its association with financial penalties under the Hospita...

Machine intelligence for early targeted precision management and response to outbreaks of respiratory infections.

The American journal of managed care
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the utility of machine learning (ML) for the management of Medicare beneficiaries at risk of severe respiratory infections in community and postacute settings by (1) identifying individuals in a community setting at risk of in...

Does machine learning improve prediction of VA primary care reliance?

The American journal of managed care
OBJECTIVES: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System is among the largest integrated health systems in the United States. Many VA enrollees are dual users of Medicare, and little research has examined methods to most accurately predict which vete...

Novel Machine Learning Approach to Identify Preoperative Risk Factors Associated With Super-Utilization of Medicare Expenditure Following Surgery.

JAMA surgery
IMPORTANCE: Typically defined as the top 5% of health care users, super-utilizers are responsible for an estimated 40% to 55% of all health care costs. Little is known about which factors may be associated with increased risk of long-term postoperati...

Bundled Care for Hip Fractures: A Machine-Learning Approach to an Untenable Patient-Specific Payment Model.

Journal of orthopaedic trauma
OBJECTIVES: With the transition to a value-based model of care delivery, bundled payment models have been implemented with demonstrated success in elective lower extremity joint arthroplasty. Yet, hip fracture outcomes are dependent on patient-level ...

Measuring Exposure to Incarceration Using the Electronic Health Record.

Medical care
BACKGROUND: Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich source of health information; however social determinants of health, including incarceration, and how they impact health and health care disparities can be hard to extract.

Identifying Specific Combinations of Multimorbidity that Contribute to Health Care Resource Utilization: An Analytic Approach.

Medical care
BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity affects the majority of elderly adults and is associated with higher health costs and utilization, but how specific patterns of morbidity influence resource use is less understood.