Estimating health spending associated with chronic multimorbidity in 2018: An observational study among adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rise in health spending in the United States and the prevalence of multimorbidity-having more than one chronic condition-are interlinked but not well understood. Multimorbidity is believed to have an impact on an individual's health spending, but how having one specific additional condition impacts spending is not well established. Moreover, most studies estimating spending for single diseases rarely adjust for multimorbidity. Having more accurate estimates of spending associated with each disease and different combinations could aid policymakers in designing prevention policies to more effectively reduce national health spending. This study explores the relationship between multimorbidity and spending from two distinct perspectives: (1) quantifying spending on diffe

SUBMITTER: Chang AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10072449 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature