Who are the patients with highest health care spending? An international comparison of ‘high-cost patients’ in seven countries

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When: Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 12–1 p.m.

Where: ICES, G-Wing, Conference Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)

Who: Marit Tanke, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor, 2016-2017 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, The Commonwealth Fund, New York; Partners HealthCare / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Topic: Who are the patients with highest health care spending? An international comparison of ‘high-cost patients’ in seven countries

Learning objectives

1. Understand the differences and similarities in characteristics of the so-called ‘high-cost’ patient population in developed economies
2. Understand how to define and identify this segment of the population
3. Understand why it is important for health care delivery systems, payers, and policy makers to focus on these patients.

Marit Tanke