医疗保险优势中的过度诊断编码:来自熟练护理机构的证据 临床评估
Cyrus M Kosar1, Hannah O James2, Daeho Kim3
1Cyrus M. Kosar (cyrus_kosar@brown.edu), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Health affairs (Project Hope)
|December 3, 2024
概括
根据一项比较索赔,评估和死亡率数据的研究,Medicare Advantage计划可能会膨胀更高支付的诊断. 这种诊断编码通货膨胀可能对医疗保险计划产生重大财务后果.
科学领域:
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 医学编码 医学编码
背景情况:
- 政府对医疗保险优势 (MA) 的支出相当大,风险调整发挥着关键作用.
- 用于MA支付风险调整的诊断代码的准确性令人担忧.
研究的目的:
- 调查是否依赖诊断代码进行风险调整膨胀在医疗保险优势计划提交的诊断.
- 评估潜在的诊断编码通货膨胀对马来西亚的财政影响.
主要方法:
- 医院索赔中的诊断与从熟练护理机构 (SNF) 的健康状况测量评估和短期死亡数据进行了比较.
- 分析了MA和传统医疗保险注册者的数据,使用SNF评估作为不可操纵的基准.
- 检查了MA图表审查更新对诊断代码的影响.
主要成果:
- 美国医疗保险的入学者比传统的医疗保险入学者拥有类似的SNF评估健康状况,其基于索赔的疾病得分高4.1%.
- 短期死亡风险在MA入学者中降低了8.8%.
- 疾病评分差异的约60%与MA图表审查诊断更新有关,附加的代码与评估健康状况无关.
结论:
- 证据表明,医疗保险优势索赔中的诊断可能会膨胀,这是由图表审查所驱动的.
- 这种与实际健康状况无关的编码通货膨胀可能会对MA的增长和支出产生重大财政影响.
- 需要对经营许可风险调整和编码实践进行进一步的审查.
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