Assessing Costs & Cost-variability Among Enrollees of Health Insurance Programs Utilizing Charlson's Comorbidity Index and Administrative Databases

Completed

Conditions studied: Multiple Chronic Illnesses

In brief

This study will involve the evaluation of the cost profile of about approximately 241,000 patients (15,000 who are members of the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network AND 226,000 members of a large self insured union trust fund). We will test the hypothesis that as comorbidity scores exceed three-four, patients will have an exponential increase in average yearly cost with a parallel exponential increase in cost variability. We will examine the relationship between comorbidity and health insurance costs and variability in costs among patients enrolled in health plans.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01761253

Run by

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

People needed

241000

Starts

2006-06-01

Expected to finish

2010-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-20

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• patients with different burdens of comorbidity who have at least two continuous years of enrollment in the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network between June 2007 to July 2009 and members of a large self insured union trust fund from 2007-2010

Where it is running

• Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network — The Bronx, New York, United States

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