Utilization and Cost of an Employer-Sponsored Comprehensive Primary Care Delivery Model.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Primary care is increasingly delivered at or near workplaces, yet utilization and cost of employer-sponsored primary care services remain unknown.

Objective

To compare the health care utilization and cost of an employer-sponsored on-site, near-site, and virtual comprehensive primary care service delivery model with those of traditional community-based primary care.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based cohort study of 23 518 commercially insured employees and dependents of an engineering and manufacturing firm headquartered in southern California was performed from January 1, 2016, to July 1, 2019. A subset of the population with most (≥50%) primary care visits through employer-sponsored on-site, near-site, or virtual care clinics was matc

SUBMITTER: Basu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7193330 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature