Health IT Analytics July 2, 2015
In order to begin an effective population health management initiative, providers must first identify and stratify patients by the costs they incur, says a new white paper by the Health Care Transformation Task Force. By proactively flagging patients in the highest brackets of spending and service utilization, providers can target their population health and chronic disease management programs more effectively.
“Identifying the high cost population is important for practical reasons. Health care costs are highly concentrated in a very small patient subpopulation,” says the paper, compiled by the High Cost Patient Work Group.
“For example, the top 5 percent of patients, ranked by individual health care dollars spent, are responsible for almost half of the nation’s total personal health care...
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