Low-Value Medical Services in the Safety-Net Population.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

National patterns of low-value and high-value care delivered to patients without insurance or with Medicaid could inform public policy but have not been previously examined.

Objective

To measure rates of low-value care and high-value care received by patients without insurance or with Medicaid, compared with privately insured patients, and provided by safety-net physicians vs non-safety-net physicians.

Design, setting, and participants

This multiyear cross-sectional observational study included all patients ages 18 to 64 years from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2005-2013) and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2005-2011) eligible for any of the 21 previously defined low-value or high-value care measures. All measures were a

SUBMITTER: Barnett ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5540058 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature