Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data

Abstract Background One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comorbidities, the secondary diagnoses, are common across many causes of ill...

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Main Authors: Joseph L. Dieleman, Ranju Baral, Elizabeth Johnson, Anne Bulchis, Maxwell Birger, Anthony L. Bui, Madeline Campbell, Abigail Chapin, Rose Gabert, Hannah Hamavid, Cody Horst, Jonathan Joseph, Liya Lomsadze, Ellen Squires, Martin Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Health Economics Review
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13561-017-0166-2