A Better Way to Understand Postdischarge Care

As hospitals are increasingly held accountable for what happens outside the hospital walls, they need access to better claims data. In a recent study published in the November issue of The American Journal of Managed Care^®, researchers with the Michigan Value Collaborative found that it is possible to derive episode-level utilization from claims data and it provides a level of postdischarge care precision that is superior to medical records that hospitals have access to.

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Validation of a Claims-Based Algorithm to Characterize Episodes of Care: www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2017/2017-vol23-n11/validation-of-a-claimsbased-algorithm-to-characterize-episodes-of-care