Prior Use of Durable Medical Equipment as a Risk Adjuster for Health-Based Capitation

• Auteurs principaux: Richard C. van Kleef (Auteur), René C. J. A. van Vliet (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: SAGE Publishing, 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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This paper examines a new risk adjuster for capitation payments to Dutch health plans, based on the prior use of durable medical equipment (DME). The essence is to classify users of DME in a previous year into clinically homogeneous classes and to apply the resulting classification as a risk adjuste...