Since expenditures are heavily skewed, the top 5 percent of patients by cost contribute a disproportionate amount to the mean ...

This article summarizes the provisions of the final 2026 HHS Notice of Benefit Payment Parameters related to the individual ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented hierarchical condition category (HCC) models in 2004 to adjust payments ...

Although other forms of chronic liver disease are risk factors for HCC, numerically these diseases are uncommon and thus impart only a small attributable risk. The incidence of HCC is age related ...

One of the important aspects of establishing a screening program for HCC is to define the at-risk population. Although we know that hepatitis B and cirrhosis of all causes are risk factors for HCC ...