Comparing Shared Patient Networks Across Payers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measuring care coordination in administrative data facilitates important research to improve care quality.

Objective

To compare shared patient networks constructed from administrative claims data across multiple payers.

Design

Social network analysis of pooled cross sections of physicians treating prevalent colorectal cancer patients between 2003 and 2013.

Participants

Surgeons, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists identified from North Carolina Central Cancer Registry data linked to Medicare claims (N = 1735) and private insurance claims (N = 1321).

Main measures

Provider-level measures included the number of patients treated, the number of providers with whom they share patients (by specialty), the extent of patient sharing with ea

SUBMITTER: Trogdon JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816773 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature