- Title
- Evaluating alternative risk adjusters for Medicare.
- First Author
- Pope, Gregory C
- Date of Pub
- 1998 Winter
- Pages
- 109-129
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Other Authors
- Adamache, Killard W; Khandker, Rezaul K; Walsh, Edith G
- Abstract
- In this study the authors use 3 years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to evaluate alternative demographic, survey, and claims-based risk adjusters for Medicare capitation payment. The survey health-status models have three to four times the predictive power of the demographic models. The risk-adjustment model derived from claims diagnoses have 75-percent greater predictive power than a comprehensive survey model. No single model predicts average expenditures well for all beneficiary subgroups of interest, suggesting a combined model may be appropriate. More data are needed to obtain stable estimates of model parameters. Advantages and disadvantages of alternative risk adjusters are discussed.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Managed Care Programs : Medicare : Aged : Economics, Medical : Health Services Research/economics : Health Surveys : Human : Models, Econometric : Patient Satisfaction : Regression Analysis : Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB2000-102915
