How Primary Care Physicians Integrate Price Information into Clinical Decision-Making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about how primary care physicians (PCPs) in routine outpatient practice use paid price information (i.e., the amount that insurers finally pay providers) in daily clinical practice.

Objective

To describe the experiences of PCPs who have had paid price information on tests and procedures for at least 1 year.

Design

Cross-sectional study using semi-structured interviews and the constant comparative method of qualitative analysis.

Participants

Forty-six PCPs within an accountable care organization.

Intervention

Via the ordering screen of their electronic health record, PCPs were presented with the median paid price for commonly ordered tests and procedures (e.g., blood tests, x-rays, CTs, MRIs).

Approach

We asked PCPs for (

SUBMITTER: Schiavoni KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215149 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature