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Kaiser Health News Features HCFO-Researcher's Findings on Disease Burden and Medicare Spending

Publication Date: 
May 30, 2013

Kaiser Health News [1] presented findings from a HCFO-funded study [2]on high-cost Medicare beneficiaries. The study by James Reschovsky, Ph.D., Center for Studying Health System Change, and colleagues found [3]that health status differences likely explain between 75 and 85 percent of the variation in Medicare spending.

Topic: 
Costs and Cost Containment [4]
Medicare [5]
Organization and Supply of Care [6]
Provider Payment and Behavior [7]
Source URL: http://www.hcfo.org/news/kaiser-health-news-features-hcfo-researchers-findings-disease-burden-and-medicare-spending

Links:
[1] http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/May/28/medicare-state-geographic-variation-costs.aspx
[2] http://www.hcfo.org/grants/cost-and-efficiency-treating-high-cost-medicare-beneficiaries-role-physician-practice-and-hea
[3] http://mcr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/04/26/1077558713487771.abstract
[4] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/costs-and-cost-containment
[5] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/medicare
[6] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/organization-and-supply-care
[7] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/provider-payment-and-behavior