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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Ambulatory Care Management Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 1 - 16
Main Author: Welch WP
Format: tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Jul2002
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