Detecting unexpected growths in health technologies expenditures: the case of MIPRES in Colombia

• Main Authors: Oscar Espinosa (Author), Valeria Bejarano (Author), Cristian Sanabria (Author), Jhonathan Rodríguez (Author), Sergio Basto (Author), Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes (Author), Adriana Robayo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract We developed an algorithm to explore unexpected growth in the usage and costs of health technologies. We exploit data from the expenditures on technologies funded by the Colombian government under the compulsory insurance system, where all prescriptions for technologies not included in an e...