Hot-Spotters Aren't "The Problem"...But They Are Emblematic of the Failure of U.S. Healthcare

Hemal K Kanzaria^{1

2}, Jerome R Hoffman³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. hemal.kanzaria@ucsf.edu.
² San Francisco Health Network, San Francisco, CA, USA. hemal.kanzaria@ucsf.edu.
³ University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Editorial

Hemal K Kanzaria et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Jan.

. 2017 Jan;32(1):6-8.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3846-4.

Hemal K Kanzaria^{1

2}, Jerome R Hoffman³

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. hemal.kanzaria@ucsf.edu.
² San Francisco Health Network, San Francisco, CA, USA. hemal.kanzaria@ucsf.edu.
³ University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Comment in

Five High-Cost Patient Groups.
Westfall JM, Griswold K. Westfall JM, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Sep;32(9):965. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4105-z. J Gen Intern Med. 2017. PMID: 28653230 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Five High-Cost Patient Groups.
Kanzaria HK, Hoffman JR. Kanzaria HK, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Sep;32(9):966. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4106-y. J Gen Intern Med. 2017. PMID: 28664258 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

High-Cost Patients: Hot-Spotters Don't Explain the Half of It.
Lee NS, Whitman N, Vakharia N, Taksler GB, Rothberg MB. Lee NS, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Jan;32(1):28-34. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3790-3. Epub 2016 Aug 1. J Gen Intern Med. 2017. PMID: 27480529 Free PMC article.

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