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  • Health Services Research
  • Primary Care Medicine
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Care coordination is vital for patient-centered medical homes.
  • Identifying patients who benefit most from care coordination remains a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the predictive performance of various risk-adjustment/stratification tools for healthcare utilization.
  • To compare the effectiveness of different models in identifying patients needing enhanced care coordination.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective cohort analysis of 83,187 adult primary care patients (2009-2010).
  • Evaluated six risk-adjustment models: Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs), Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs), Elder Risk Assessment (ERA), Chronic Comorbidity Count, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and Minnesota Health Care Home Tiering.
  • Used logistic regression to predict healthcare utilization (ED visits, hospitalizations, 30-day readmissions, high-cost users) and assessed model performance using C statistics and goodness of fit.

Main Results:

  • The ACG model demonstrated superior performance in predicting hospitalizations (C-statistic 0.67-0.73) and emergency department visits (C-statistic 0.58-0.67).
  • ACG models also showed strong performance in identifying the top 10% highest cost users (Area Under the Curve = 0.81), outperforming other models.
  • While ACG models generally performed best, all evaluated models offered some predictive capability.

Conclusions:

  • The Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) model is a highly effective tool for predicting healthcare utilization.
  • Implementing risk-stratification models, particularly ACGs, can enhance the efficiency of care coordination in primary care practices.
  • These tools assist in proactively identifying and managing patients who may benefit most from care coordination services.