Background: Accurately identifying high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients to reduce their
preventable or modifiable health care use for their chronic conditions is a priority and a …

Importance Medically complex patients are a heterogeneous group that contribute to a
substantial proportion of health care costs. Coordinated efforts to improve care and reduce …

Background Efforts to improve the value of care for high-cost patients may benefit from care
management strategies targeted at clinically distinct subgroups of patients. Objective To …

Importance Current approaches to predicting health care costs generally rely on a single
composite value of spending and focus on short time horizons. By contrast, examining …

OBJECTIVES High‐need (HN) Medicare beneficiaries heavily use healthcare services at a
high cost. This population is heterogeneous, composed of individuals with varying degrees …

Introduction Clustering analyses in clinical contexts hold promise to improve the
understanding of patient phenotype and disease course in chronic and acute clinical …

Background: Few studies have categorized high-cost patients (defined by accumulated
health care spending above a predetermined percentile) into distinctive groups for which …

Introduction High-cost patients are characterized by repeated hospitalizations, and inpatient
cost accounts for a large proportion of their total health care spending. This study aimed to …

Background Unmet social needs may impair health and access to health care, and
intervening on these holds particular promise in high-risk patient populations, such as those …

Background Although the trend of progressing morbidity is widely recognized, there are
numerous challenges when studying multimorbidity and patient complexity. For multimorbid …