Comorbidities Are Driving Up Healthcare Costs — Here’s How More Specialized Care Management Can Bring Them Under Control

To bend the cost curve, we need a smarter, more integrated approach to care management — one capable of addressing rising upstream cost drivers, while still delivering high-quality, patient-centered outcomes.  The post Comorbidities Are Driving Up Healthcare Costs — Here’s How More Specialized Care Management Can Bring Them Under Control appeared first on MedCity News.

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Types of uncertainty in health economic modelling

There are four primary types of uncertainty in health economic modelling: Heterogeneity: Variation between individuals that can be explained by their characteristicsStochastic uncertainty: Variation between individuals that cannot be explained by their characteristics, Parameter uncertainty: Uncertainty in the estimated values for the parameters that define the modelStructural uncertainty: Uncertainty in model outcomes that arise from…

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Is Caring Productive?

That is the title of a paper by Longo et al. (2025). The authors use dynamic panel data on Adult Social Care (ASC) in the UK. What is ASC include: A quick explainer about ASC in the UK: In England, there are 152 upper-tier local authorities (LAs) who are responsible for publicly-funded ASC services. Access…

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