Fig. 1
From: Challenges in predicting future high-cost patients for care management interventions
Distribution of Hospital Utilization Across Study Cohorts, Count of hospital admission (0–6 or more) by Heart Failure Cohort, 2018
Notes:
Segment 1: Beneficiaries with at least one 2017 ambulatory (Part B) bill or a 2017 index inpatient (Part A) admission with a heart failure ICD-10 diagnosis code (N = 3.6 million)
Segment 2: Beneficiaries with at least two 2017 ambulatory (Part B) heart failure bills 30-days apart or one 2017 index hospitalization with a primary diagnosis of heart failure (N = 1.9 million)
Segment 3: Beneficiaries with one or more 2017 index hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of heart failure (N = 1.0 million)