science to profits

Tag: Conditions and Diseases

  • Disease cost drill down (1)

    To be actionable, I felt it more useful to look at healthcare costs by specific clinical condition, rather than by the general disease groupings of my last post. Here is the graphic I came up with (excluding mental disease categories for now). The 8 red dots represent clinical condition codes with annual expenditures each in…

  • Disease through the eyes of an accountant

    There has been a lot written recently about how some diseases cost the healthcare system more than others, and the fact that some patients (the sick ones and the old ones) cost more than others. I wanted to learn more about which clinical conditions are the big contributors to our national healthcare bill. So, for the…