Predicting the Cost of Health Care Services: A Comparison of Case-mix Systems and Comorbidity Indices That Use Administrative Data

Conclusions: All these systems have empirical support for use in predicting health care costs, despite in some cases being developed for other purposes. No system is particularly effective at predicting next-year acute care cost, likely because acute events are often by definition unexpected. The freely available ECI and CCI comorbidity indices implemented using the highest-performing methods developed here may be a good choice in many circumstances.
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