Updating a Claims-Based Measure of Low-Value Services Applicable to Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries
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In this paper, the authors describe how we updated the Original low-value services (LVS) measure set to reflect ICD-10 diagnosis codes and identified three LVS examples that show declining informativeness for current beneficiaries. Accordingly, we identified three alternative LVS examples and report the reliability and validity of an Updated LVS measure.
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