Association between medical home enrollment and health care utilization and costs among breast cancer patients in a state Medicaid program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is increasingly being implemented in an effort to improve and coordinate primary care, but its effect on health care utilization among breast cancer patients remains unclear. The objective of this study was to examine health care utilization and expenditures as a function of PCMH enrollment among breast cancer patients in North Carolina's Medicaid program.

Methods

North Carolina Medicaid claims linked to North Carolina Central Cancer Registry records (2003-2007) were used to examine monthly patterns of health care use and expenditures. Controlling for a selection bias for time-invariant characteristics, fixed effects regression models analyzed associations between PCMH enrollment and utilization of outpatient, inpatient, an

SUBMITTER: Kohler RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5004988 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature