Differences in Risk Scores of Veterans Receiving Community Care Purchased by the Veterans Health Administration.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess differences in risk (measured by expected costs associated with sociodemographic and clinical profiles) between Veterans receiving outpatient services through two community care (CC) programs: the Fee program ("Fee") and the Veterans Choice Program ("Choice").

Data sources/study setting

Administrative data from VHA's Corporate Data Warehouse in fiscal years (FY) 2014-2015.

Study design

We compared the clinical characteristics of Veterans across three groups (Fee only, Choice only, and Fee & Choice). We classified Veterans into risk groups based on Nosos risk scores and examined the relationship between type of outpatient utilization and risk within each CC group. We also examined changes in utilization of VHA and CC in FY14-FY15. We used chi-square

SUBMITTER: Rosen AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6235821 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature