TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - What Everyone Should Know About Risk Adjustment
A1  - Howell, Michael D.
A1  - Stevens, Jennifer P.
Y1  - 2020
N1  - 
T2  - Understanding Healthcare Delivery Science
AB  - Risk  adjustment  in  medicine  and  healthcare  is  a  story  of  convergent  evolution.  On  one  hand,  risk  adjustment  has  a  history  that  emerged  with  the  creation  of  health  insurance  in  the  United  States  in  the  20th  century.  The  “risk”  is  the  risk  assumed  by  the  insurance  company  to  insure  each  individual  person.  In  this  setting,  it  represented  an  estimate  of  how  chronically  ill  a  particular  person  is,  and  therefore,  how  costly  that  person  is  to  insure.1  On  the  other  hand,  similar  efforts  were  underway  at  the  hospital  level  to  create  methods  to  compare  one  hospital  with  another;  risk  adjustment  allows  comparisons  by  understanding  the  variation  in  the  probability  of  adverse  or  favorable  outcomes  based  on  patient  characteristics  versus  hospital-driven  outcomes.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1167645351
ER  -