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How well do Ambulatory Care Groups predict expenditures on mental health and substance abuse patients?

Published: March 1, 1997
Category: Bibliography > Papers
Authors: Ettner SL, Notman EH
Countries: United States
Language: null
Types: Care Management, Population Health
Settings: Academic, Hospital

Adm Policy Ment Health 24:339-357.

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

This paper evaluates the ability of Ambulatory Care Groups (ACGs) to prospectively predict mental health and substance abuse expenditures and total health care expenditures of persons enrolled in the New Hampshire Medicaid Program during fiscal years 1993 and 1994. A series of multi-part models is estimated separately for adults and children and a synthetic R-squared and the mean absolute predictive error are calculated. The results show that with the exception of predicting total expenditures for children, ACGs do not perform as well as simple models containing various demographic and prior mental health/substance abuse utilization measures.

PMID: 9217332

Fraud and Abuse Detection,Resource Utilization,Process Measures,United States,Adolescent,Adult,Child,Preschool,Databases,Factual,Diagnosis-Related Groups/classification,Evaluation Studies as Topic,Gender,Forecasting,Linear Models,Medicaid/statistics & numerical data,Mental Health Services/classification,Middle Aged,Models,Economic,New Hampshire/epidemiology,Pregnancy,Retrospective Studies,Risk Assessment

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