Assessing Costs & Cost-variability Among Enrollees of Health Insurance Programs Utilizing Charlson's Comorbidity Index and Administrative Databases

Completed

• Conditions: Multiple Chronic Illnesses

• Registration Number: NCT01761253
• Lead Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Brief Summary

This study will involve the evaluation of the cost profile of about approximately 241,000 patients (15,000 who are members of the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network AND 226,000 members of a large self insured union trust fund). We will test the hypothesis that as comorbidity scores exceed three-four, patients will have an exponential increase in average yearly cost with a parallel exponential increase in cost variability.

We will examine the relationship between comorbidity and health insurance costs and variability in costs among patients enrolled in health plans.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-06
• Primary Completion: 2010-07
• Study Completion: 2010-07
• Study First Submitted: 2013-01-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-01-02
• Study First Posted: 2013-01-04
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-17
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 241000

Inclusion Criteria

• patients with different burdens of comorbidity who have at least two continuous years of enrollment in the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network between June 2007 to July 2009 and members of a large self insured union trust fund from 2007-2010

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessing costs & cost-variability among enrollees of health insurance programs utilizing Charlson's comorbidity index and administrative databases	The data within this dataset was collected between July 2006 and July 2010.	Data for approximately 241,000 patients (15,000 who are members of the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network and 226,000 members of a large self insured union trust fund) during the calendar years 2006 and 2010 will be assembled and will include age, gender, length of plan enrollment, whether or not the patient is disabled, and their diagnoses. The data within this dataset was collected between July 2006 and July 2010.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network; 🇺🇸 Bronx, New York, United States