Andrew Anderson on the Costs of Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations
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The Cost of Preventable Admissions
You focused on the cost of preventable admissions and particularly the cost associated with disparities in those. You used, I guess, what we'd call sort of standard techniques to account for the fact that you didn't have everything you needed. But I do think it's just an important story, even separate from your findings, about how many of the states just didn't have the information you might have wanted. Well, let's move to the findings. Yeah, so we found over $600 million in annual excess spending across all of the groups that we looked at. And then the headline is we found nearly half of the excess admissions within this cost for black beneficiaries were attributable to disparity.
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