Risk-Adjusted Mortality: Problems and Possibilities

Table 1

Comorbidities with the greatest slopes across all four risk levels in the methods used by UHC and 3M.

Comorbidity	3M	UHC
584.9: acute renal failure NOS	×	×
428.: CHF unspecified	×	×
518.81: acute respiratory failure	×	×
599.: urin tract INFEC/bacteriuria	×	×
V66.7: encounter for palliative care	×	×
486: pneumonia, organism NOS	×	×
57.: food/vomit pneumonitis	×	×
427.31: atrial fibrillation	×	×
414.1: cornry atheroscelersis native	×	×
511.9: pleural effusion NOS	×	×
276.1: Hyposmolality	×	×
518.: pulmonary collapse	×	×
276.2: acidosis	×	×
E849.7: ACCID in resident INSTIT	×	×
43.9: HY KID NOS W CR KID I-IV	×	×
198.5: secondary malig neo bone	×	×
285.9: anemia NOS	×	×
995.92: severe sepsis	×	×
25.: DMII WO COMP NT ST UNCNTR	×
785.52: septic shock	×
272.4: hyperlipidemia NEC/NOS	×
V15.82: history of tobacco use	×
77.3: decubitus ulcer, low back	×
41.9: hypertension	×
38.9: septicemia NOS	×
276.8: hypopotassemia		×
276.51: dehydration		×
244.9: hypothyroidism NOS		×
276.7: hyperpotassemia		×
585.9: chronic kidney dis NOS		×
287.5: thrombocytopenia NOS		×
197.7: secondary liver Ca		×