Predicting All-Cause Hospital Readmissions from Medical Claims Data of Hospitalised Patients

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kadimisetty, Avinash, Rajagopalan, Arun, SK, Vijendra
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914124106039296
author Kadimisetty, Avinash
Rajagopalan, Arun
SK, Vijendra
author_facet Kadimisetty, Avinash
Rajagopalan, Arun
SK, Vijendra
contents Reducing preventable hospital readmissions is a national priority for payers, providers, and policymakers seeking to improve health care and lower costs. The rate of readmission is being used as a benchmark to determine the quality of healthcare provided by the hospitals. In thisproject, we have used machine learning techniques like Logistic Regression, Random Forest and Support Vector Machines to analyze the health claims data and identify demographic and medical factors that play a crucial role in predicting all-cause readmissions. As the health claims data is high dimensional, we have used Principal Component Analysis as a dimension reduction technique and used the results for building regression models. We compared and evaluated these models based on the Area Under Curve (AUC) metric. Random Forest model gave the highest performance followed by Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machine models. These models can be used to identify the crucial factors causing readmissions and help identify patients to focus on to reduce the chances of readmission, ultimately bringing down the cost and increasing the quality of healthcare provided to the patients.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2510_26188
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Predicting All-Cause Hospital Readmissions from Medical Claims Data of Hospitalised Patients
Kadimisetty, Avinash
Rajagopalan, Arun
SK, Vijendra
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Reducing preventable hospital readmissions is a national priority for payers, providers, and policymakers seeking to improve health care and lower costs. The rate of readmission is being used as a benchmark to determine the quality of healthcare provided by the hospitals. In thisproject, we have used machine learning techniques like Logistic Regression, Random Forest and Support Vector Machines to analyze the health claims data and identify demographic and medical factors that play a crucial role in predicting all-cause readmissions. As the health claims data is high dimensional, we have used Principal Component Analysis as a dimension reduction technique and used the results for building regression models. We compared and evaluated these models based on the Area Under Curve (AUC) metric. Random Forest model gave the highest performance followed by Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machine models. These models can be used to identify the crucial factors causing readmissions and help identify patients to focus on to reduce the chances of readmission, ultimately bringing down the cost and increasing the quality of healthcare provided to the patients.
title Predicting All-Cause Hospital Readmissions from Medical Claims Data of Hospitalised Patients
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26188