Sustainable care coordination: a qualitative study of primary care provider, administrator, and insurer perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care coordination has been a common tool for practices seeking to manage complex patients, yet there remains confusion about the most effective and sustainable model. Research exists on opinions of providers of care coordination but there is limited information on perspectives of those in the insurance industry about key elements. We sought to gather opinions from primary care providers and administrators in Minnesota who were involved in a CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) transformational grant implementing COMPASS (Care Of Mental, Physical And Substance-use Syndromes), an evidence-based model of care coordination for depressed patients comorbid with diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease. We then sought to compare these views with those of private insura

SUBMITTER: Williams MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6359857 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature