The impact of improving access to primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To measure the size and timing of changes in utilization and costs for employees and dependents who had major access barriers to primary care removed, across an 8-year period (2007 to 2014).

Study design and methods

Retrospective observational study examining patterns of utilization and costs before and after the implementation of a worksite medical office in 2010. The worksite office offered convenient primary care services with no travel from work, essentially guaranteed same day access, and no co-pay. Trends in visit rates and costs were compared for an intervention fixed cohort group (employees and dependents) at the employer (n = 1211) with a control fixed cohort group (n = 542 162) for 6 types of visits (primary, urgent, emergency, inpatient, specialty, and

SUBMITTER: Glass DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5765488 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature