title: PHO uses data effectively to identify potentially high-risk, high-cost patients.
abstract: PHO uses data to avoid future costs: Potentially high-cost, high-risk patients may not show up in billing data until it's too late. Read why a PHO in the Northeast decided to go on the offensive to get its high-cost and high-risk patients into disease management or preventive care programs.
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D019468:Disease Management; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014481:United States