1. Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for High-Need Patients
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Moderator: Melinda Abrams
May 21, 2015

2. Annual mean expenditure
Health Care Costs Concentrated in Sick Few— Sickest 5 Percent Account for 50 Percent of Expenses
Distribution of health expenditures for the U.S. population, by magnitude of expenditure, 2009
Annual mean expenditure
per person 1% 5%
10%
50%
65%
22%
97%
$90,061
($275b total spend)
$40,682
($623b total spend)
$26,767
($821 b total spend)
$7,978
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality analysis of 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

3. Rationale and Purpose of Today’s Webinar
High-cost patients are often high-need patients
Need to identify and target high-need, high-cost individuals to customize interventions to meet their needs
“Identification” and “targeting”  not as easy as it sounds
Camden Coalition to develop a Fund-supported analytic toolkit to enable communities to zero in on high-need, high-cost patients, which is just the first step
Today’s objectives:
Learn about the toolkit
Hear how two health systems use analytics to target high- need, high-cost patients
This is not a webinar about the interventions
This is a webinar to help demystify the technical piece of the puzzle that is critical to achieving the goals

4. Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for High-Need Patients
Melinda Abrams,
The Commonwealth Fund
Aaron Truchil Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Stephen Singer
Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
James Schuster, M.D., Health Insurance Division, UPMC
Alice Pressman, Ph.D., Sutter Health of Northern California

5. Using Data to Drive Better Health Care for High-Need Patients Q & A For slides, go to: about-us/events/2015/