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Identifying Medicare Beneficiaries with Disabilities: Improving on Claims-Based Algorithms

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In this report, we assessed the feasibility of using existing claims-based algorithms to identify
community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries with disability based solely on the conditions for which
they are being treated and to improve the algorithms by combining them in predictive models. [39
PDF pages]

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algorithm.pdf (pdf, 740.6 KB)
Topics
Evaluation Policy | Disability
Populations
People with Disabilities | Medicare Beneficiaries
Program
Medicare