Characteristics Of Emergency Department Visits For Super-Utilizers By Payer, 2014
On February 23, 2017, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) published this statistical brief regarding emergency department visits for super-utilizers for 2014. The brief is the latest descriptive information on demographic and clinical characteristics of super-utilizers of hospital services, using nationwide data from the HCUP.
Super-utilizers are high-need, high-cost patients who constitute a very small percentage of the population but account for a disproportionally high amount of health care utilization. Programs designed to improve care for super-utilizers need to be tailored to the specific needs of the different subgroups of these patients . . .