Outpatient encounter data for risk adjustment: strategic issues for Medicare and Medicaid.

Payers are increasingly using diagnostic data from outpatient encounter records to adjust the payment to health plans. Although much has been written about the ability of such data to predict health care costs, little has been written about the data itself--its quality and availability. Fee-for-serv...

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Publicado en:Journal of Ambulatory Care Management Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 1 - 16
Autor principal: Welch WP
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Jul2002
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          Fee for Service Plans
          Data Collection
          Insurance, Health, Reimbursement
          Managed Care Programs
          Medicare
          Medical Records
          Medicaid
          Clinical Information Systems
          Data Collection Methods
          Managed Care Information Systems
      ab: Payers are increasingly using diagnostic data from outpatient encounter records to adjust the payment to health plans. Although much has been written about the ability of such data to predict health care costs, little has been written about the data itself--its quality and availability. Fee-for-service (FFS) data face several threats to their validity, including the possibility that they may seriously underreport diagnoses. Because the systems and incentives that yield FFS and managed care diagnosis data are quite different, they may not be comparable, depending on circumstances such as audit rules. The next generation of risk adjustment models should be designed around the capabilities and potentialities of plans' information systems. Copyright © 2002 by Aspen Publishers, Inc.
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