Organizational integration, practice capabilities, and outcomes in clinically complex medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the association between clinical integration and financial integration, quality-focused care delivery processes, and beneficiary utilization and outcomes.

Data sources

Multiphysician practices in the 2017-2018 National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems (response rate 47%) and 2017 Medicare claims data.

Study design

Cross-sectional study of Medicare beneficiaries attributed to physician practices, focusing on two domains of integration: clinical (coordination of patient services, use of protocols, individual clinician measures, access to information) and financial (financial management and planning across operating units). We examined the association between integration domains, the adoption of quality-focused care delivery processes, b

SUBMITTER: Colla C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature