Identifying a sample of HIV-positive beneficiaries from medicaid claims data and estimating their treatment costs

A.A. Leibowitz and K. Desmond

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 3, 567-574

Abstract: Objectives. We sought to identify people living with HIV/AIDS from Medicare and Medicaid claims data to estimate Medicaid costs for treating HIV/AIDS in California. We also examined how alternate methods of identifying the relevant sample affect estimates of per capita costs.

Keywords: California; economics; female; health care cost; health care policy; HIV Seropositivity; human; insurance; legislation and jurisprudence; male; medicaid; medicare; standards; statistical analysis; statistics and numerical data; trends; United States, California; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Female; Health Care Costs; HIV Seropositivity; Humans; Insurance Claim Review; Insurance Coverage; Male; Medicaid; Medicare; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302263

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