Medical Group Characteristics and the Cost and Quality of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the relationship between outcomes of care and medical practices' structure and use of organized care improvement processes.

Data sources/study setting

We linked Medicare claims data to our national survey of physician practices (2012-2013). Fifty percent response rate; 1,040 responding practices; 31,888 physicians; 868,213 attributed Medicare beneficiaries.

Study design

Cross-sectional observational analysis of the relationship between practice characteristics and total spending, readmissions, and ambulatory care-sensitive admissions (ACSAs), for all beneficiaries and five categories of beneficiary defined by predicted need for care.

Principal findings

Practices with 100+ physicians and 50-99 physicians had, respectively, annual spending p

SUBMITTER: Casalino LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6232442 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature