Hospital-physician integration and clinical volume in traditional Medicare.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the effect of hospital-physician integration on primary care physicians' (PCP) clinical volume in traditional Medicare.

Data sources and study setting

Nationwide retrospective longitudinal study using Medicare claims and other data sources from 2010 to 2016.

Study design

We identified 70,000 PCPs, some of whom remained non-integrated and some who became hospital-integrated during this study period. We used an event study design to identify the effect of integration on key measures of physicians' clinical volume, including the number of claims, work-relative value units (RVUs), professional revenue generated, number of patients treated, and facility fee revenue generated.

Principal findings

Per-physician clinical volume declined by statisticall

SUBMITTER: Post B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771899 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature