Identifying Beneficiaries with Comorbidities and Chronic Conditions

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This video is one segment in a series of videos from ResDAC’s Introduction to using Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) Data for Research.

Medicare fee-for-service data contain comprehensive information of healthcare utilization and allow for measurement of comorbidities and chronic conditions.

This presentation describes measurement of comorbidities and chronic conditions in Medicare fee-for-service data. Topics include:

  • CCW Chronic condition flag algorithms
  • adjusting research analyses using existing claims-based measures of comorbidities and chronic conditions
  • limitations of detecting conditions using Medicare utilization data
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