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SUBMITTER: Neprash HT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693848 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neprash Hannah T HT Wallace Jacob J Chernew Michael E ME McWilliams J Michael JM
Health services research 20150316 6
<h4>Objective</h4>To compare methods of price measurement in health care markets.<h4>Data sources</h4>Truven Health Analytics MarketScan commercial claims.<h4>Study design</h4>We constructed medical prices indices using three approaches: (1) a "sentinel" service approach based on a single common service in a specific clinical domain, (2) a market basket approach, and (3) a spending decomposition approach. We constructed indices at the Metropolitan Statistical Area level and estimated correlation ...[more]