Time-to-Event Estimation with Unreliably Reported Events in Medicare Health Plan Payment
Medicare 医保支付中事件报告不可靠时的生存时间估计
OBJECTIVE: To propose time-to-event estimators that help evaluate incident diagnostic coding and possible upcoding in Medicare as well as introduce an open-source software package that enables more reproducible methods development relevant to Medicare billing behavior. STUDY SETTING AND DESIGN: Observational analysis of simulated upcoding based on coding by insurers or providers that may be incentivized by Medicare Advantage risk adjustment. DATA SOURCES AND ANALYTIC SAMPLE:…