title: Change comes easier when you speak physicians' language.
abstract: A Boston managed care organization is using a new profiling system that analyzes actual and expected utilization, and ties it back to costs in easy-to-read reports. One of the key features: using all claims generated by a patient for risk-adjustment analyses, thus addressing physicians' concerns about caring for sicker patients.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003142:Communication; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020379:Risk Adjustment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States