Healthcare management system and method of predicting high utilizers of healthcare services

A method of managing healthcare services, comprising the steps of:

• collecting information directly from an individual for a predetermined set of predictive factors;
• assigning, based upon the information from the individual, a separate value to each predictive factor of the set of predictive factors;
• and
• generating, based upon a predetermined predictive model and the separate values assigned to the predetermined set of predictive factors, a risk level of the individual utilizing healthcare service at a predetermined level.

A method of managing healthcare services, comprising the steps of:

• providing a survey including a plurality of questions;
• receiving response information from an individual for each of said plurality of questions of the survey;
• determining, from the information of each question, whether the response is indicative of one of a high or a low future use of healthcare services;
• assigning values to a plurality of predictive factors based upon the determining step;
• and
• generating, based upon the assigned values, an output suggestive of future use of healthcare services.

A method of managing healthcare service including the steps of:

• collecting information about an individual including a plurality of data points corresponding to a plurality of factors in a set of predictive factors;
• determining, for each data point, what the data point indicates about use of healthcare services by the individual;
• and
• generating, based on a predictive model, an output suggestive of future use of healthcare services by the individual.