A healthcare management system and method identify individuals at risk of
high near-term healthcare use. On step of the method includes collecting
information from an individual for a predetermined set of predictive
factors. Another step of the method includes assigning, based upon the
information from the individual, a separate value to each predictive
factor of the predetermined set of predictive factors. The method further
includes the step of 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
services at a predetermined level within a prospective time span.