Background: Few studies have categorized high-cost patients (defined by accumulated
health care spending above a predetermined percentile) into distinctive groups for which …

Background A small proportion of the population consumes the majority of health care
resources. High-cost health care users are a heterogeneous group. We aim to segment a …

Background: Characterizing high-cost users of health care resources is essential for the
development of appropriate interventions to improve the management of these patients. We …

Background A small proportion of patients account for the majority of health care spending.
We used detailed clinical and administrative data to explore clinical characteristics, patterns …

Background Health care spending is overwhelmingly concentrated within a very small
proportion of the population, referred to as the high-cost users (HCU). To date, research on …

Background Providers are assuming growing responsibility for healthcare spending, and
prior studies have shown that spending is concentrated in a small proportion of patients …

BACKGROUND Efforts to curb healthcare spending have included interventions that target
frequently hospitalized individuals. It is unclear the extent to which the most frequently …

Introduction Healthcare spending occurs disproportionately among a very small portion of
the population. Research on these high-cost users (HCUs) of health care has been …

Background: Most health care spending is concentrated within a small group of high-cost
health care users. To inform health policies, we examined the characteristics of index …

Background High-cost patients are a frequent focus of improvement projects based on
primary care and other settings. Efforts to characterize high-cost, high-need patients are …