Patients With High Mental Health Costs Incur Over 30 Percent More Costs Than Other High-Cost Patients

Evaluative conditioning may incur attentional costs.

Evaluative conditioning (EC) refers to changes in the liking of an affectively neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus, or CS) after pairing this stimulus with an affect-laden stimulus (unconditioned stimulus, or US). Several authors proposed that EC incurs little or no attentional cost. Using a rigorous design, we provide evidence that a reduction in attentional resources may have a negative im...

The Charlson Comorbidity Index Can Be Used Prospectively to Identify Patients Who Will Incur High Future Costs

BACKGROUND Reducing health care costs requires the ability to identify patients most likely to incur high costs. Our objective was to evaluate the ability of the Charlson comorbidity score to predict the individuals who would incur high costs in the subsequent year and to contrast its predictive ability with other commonly used predictors. METHODS We contrasted the prior year Charlson comorbi...

Total Direct Medical Expenses and Characteristics of Privately Insured Adolescents Who Incur High Costs.

IMPORTANCE Accountable care payment models aim to reduce total direct medical expenses for high-cost patients through improved quality of care and preventive health services. Little is known about health care expenditures of privately insured adolescents, especially those who incur high costs. OBJECTIVES To assess health care expenditures for high-cost adolescents and to describe the patient ...

Health care ideology clash costs patients dearly.

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