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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: NEJM AI. 2024 May 15;1(6):10.1056/aioa2300228. doi: 10.1056/aioa2300228

Table 1.

Care Use and Spending Items Collected from the Randomized Control Trial.*

Spending Category Source Type of Spending Included Description

Acute care use Hospital claims Emergency department visits, inpatient hospitalizations Emergency room and hospitalization visits
Systemic therapy Hospital claims with line items Intravenous and oral chemotherapy, injectable hormone therapy, and intravenous immunotherapy Oral/injectable systemic therapy medication and administration
Hospice Hospital claims Inpatient hospice Inpatient hospice services
Office/outpatient Hospital claims Office and outpatient visits, endoscopy/bronchoscopy Clinician visits, including tests and procedures, if applicable
Other therapy Hospital claims Day surgery, radiation/oncology Treatments serviced outside the outpatient and acute care setting
Rehab/LTC Hospital claims Long-term acute care hospital, outpatient intensive detoxification, inpatient rehabilitation, wound care LTC services, skilled nursing care, and rehabilitation
*

LTC denotes long-term care; and Rehab, rehabilitation.

Source indicates the codes and cost items used to group together cost sectors. All data were abstracted from the hospital cost accounting system used by the University of Pennsylvania.