Physician Engagement Strategies in Care Coordination: Findings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Health Care Innovation Awards Program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify roles physicians assumed as part of new health care delivery models and related strategies that facilitated physician engagement across 21 Health Care Innovation Award (HCIA) programs.

Data sources

Site-level in-depth interviews, conducted from 2014 to 2015 (N = 672) with program staff, leadership, and partners (including 95 physicians) and direct observations.

Study design

NORC conducted a mixed-method evaluation, including two rounds of qualitative data collected via site visits and telephone interviews.

Data collection/extraction methods

We used qualitative thematic coding for data from 21 programs actively engaging physicians as part of HCIA interventions.

Principal findings

Establishing physician champions and ensuring an innov

SUBMITTER: Skillman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5264033 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature