The relationships of physician practice characteristics to quality of care and costs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical group practices are central to many of the proposals for health care reform, but little is known about the relationship between practice-level characteristics and the quality and cost of care.

Methods

Practice characteristics from a 2009 national survey of 211 group practices were linked to Medicare claims data for beneficiaries attributed to the practices. Multivariate regression was used to examine the relationship between practice characteristics and claims-computable measures of screening and monitoring, avoidable utilization, risk-adjusted per-beneficiary per-year (PBPY) costs, and the practice's net revenue.

Results

Several characteristics of group practices are predictive of screening and monitoring measures. Those measures, in turn, are pred

SUBMITTER: Kralewski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4450926 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature