Predicting healthcare expenditure by multimorbidity groups

Vicent Caballer-Tarazona, Natividad Guadalajara-Olmeda and David Vivas-Consuelo

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 4, 427-434

Abstract: This article has two main purposes. Firstly, to model the integrated healthcare expenditure for the entire population of a health district in Spain, according to multimorbidity, using Clinical Risk Groups (CRG). Secondly, to show how the predictive model is applied to the allocation of health budgets.

Keywords: Budget; Case-mix system; Health econometrics; Healthcare expenditure; Multimorbidity; Risk adjustment; Two-part models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.02.002

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