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- Title
Primary Care Practices Providing a Broader Range of Services Have Lower Medicare Expenditures and Emergency Department Utilization.
- Authors
Rich, Eugene C.; O'Malley, Ann S.; Burkhart, Claire; Shang, Lisa; Ghosh, Arkadipta; Niedzwiecki, Matthew J.
- Abstract
Practice-ROS can be readily measured using diverse data sources from Medicare claims to electronic health records, and various strategies could encourage primary care practice sites to provide a broader range of the services most needed by their Medicare beneficiaries. To calculate the Practice-ROS score for each primary care practice site, we then reviewed all the Medicare claims billed by each PCP (primary care physician, nurse practitioner [NP], physician assistant [PA], or certified clinical nurse specialist [CCNS]) practicing at that site during 2013. Like prior survey approaches to measuring the range of services primary care practices offer, the Practice-ROS measure evaluates whether these services were provided to Medicare FFS beneficiaries by any PCP at the primary care practice site, not just by specific PCPs.
- Subjects
PHYSICIANS' assistants; PRIMARY care; MEDICARE; PRIMARY health care; MENTAL health services; HOSPITAL emergency services; HEALTH services administration
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 9, p2796
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-021-06728-2