Primary Care Continuity, Frequency, and Regularity Associated With Medicare Savings.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Reducing Medicare expenditures is a key objective of Medicare's transition to value-based reimbursement models. Improving access to primary care is an important way to reduce expenditures, yet less is known about how visits should be organized to maximize savings.

Objective

To examine the association between Medicare savings and primary care visit patterns.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used data from a 5% sample of traditional Medicare claims from 2016 to 2019. Participants had at least 3 primary care visits with at least 180 days between the first and the last visit, were not enrolled in Medicare Advantage, did not have end-stage kidney disease, and were not institutionalized. Data were analyzed from June 2022 to April

SUBMITTER: Sonmez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442711 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature