Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2013

Publication Title

SpringerPlus

Volume

2

Issue Number

1

DOI

10.1186/2193-1801-2-226

Keywords

Quality of care, Claims data, Logistic regression, Diabetes

Disciplines

Business | Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Insurance | Other Business

Abstract

We present a methodology for using health insurance claims data to monitor quality of care. The method uses a statistical model trained on the quality ratings of a medical expert. In a pilot study, the expert rated the quality of care received over the course of two years by 101 diabetes patients. A logistic regression model accurately identified the quality of care for 86% of the patients. Because the model uses data derived from patients’ health insurance claims it can be used to monitor the care being received by a large patient population. One important use of the model is to identify potential candidates for case management, especially patients with complicated medical histories.

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This article was published in SpringerPlus, volume 2, 2013, and is also available online at this link.
© 2013 Bertsimas et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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