Comparison of statistical and machine learning models for healthcare cost data: a simulation study motivated by Oncology Care Model (OCM) data

• Main Authors: Madhu Mazumdar (Author), Jung-Yi Joyce Lin (Author), Wei Zhang (Author), Lihua Li (Author), Mark Liu (Author), Kavita Dharmarajan (Author), Mark Sanderson (Author), Luis Isola (Author), Liangyuan Hu (Author)
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• Publicado em: BMC, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background The Oncology Care Model (OCM) was developed as a payment model to encourage participating practices to provide better-quality care for cancer patients at a lower cost. The risk-adjustment model used in OCM is a Gamma generalized linear model (Gamma GLM) with log-link. The predict...