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Description & Events
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July 27, 2005 Agenda
"Risk Adjustment: Comparing and Contrasting Alternative Approaches"
WITH VENDOR FAIR -- (see Exhibitors)
8:30am - 12:00noon
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 93 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA
Agenda
8:30 - 9:00 |
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Registration, Breakfast and Networking with Vendors |
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9:00 - 9:10 |
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Welcome & Introductions
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9:10 - 10:45 |
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"Risk Adjustment: Comparing and Contrasting Alternative Approaches"
Workshop Description:
Risk adjustment has a wide variety of potential uses in healthcare depending on the management needs. It can be used in ways from profiling individual physician or other healthcare providers at a micro level all the way up to budgeting for entire hospitals or healthcare systems. As these needs are expressed and debated within healthcare organizations, a key question nearly always arises: should we choose one risk adjustment method and use it for budgeting, profiling, mortality/morbidity assessment, patient safety monitoring, pay for performance, quality etc. or should we tailor individual risk adjustment methods for each possible use. The pros and cons of these approaches will be discussed in this presentation using examples primarily from the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs healthcare system where a wide variety of methods have been tested.
Speaker:
- James F. Burgess, Jr. - Economist, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Management Science Group and
Associate Professor of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health
Presentation / Handout:
- Slides (PDF)
- Charlson Index (PDF): I've provided my implementation SAS code for the Deyo et al.
version of the original Charlson Index that most people are using.
I give this away readily as it corrects a couple of minor errors in SAS code that
Deyo himself was distributing back in the 1990's (I think he's fixed it now).
You have my permission to give access to this code, with no responsibility
on our part or yours with what people do with it.
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10:45 - 11:00 |
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Vendor Introductions |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
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Meeting Break & Networking with Vendors |
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11:35 - 12:00 |
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Open Discussion with Audience
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12:00 |
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Adjourn & Networking with Vendors |
Exhibitors
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