Health system integration with physician specialties varies across markets and system types.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine system integration with physician specialties across markets and the association between local system characteristics and their patterns of physician integration.

Data sources

Data come from the AHRQ Compendium of US Health Systems and IQVIA OneKey database.

Study design

We examined the change from 2016 to 2018 in the percentage of physicians in systems, focusing on primary care and the 10 most numerous nonhospital-based specialties across the 382 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the US. We also categorized systems by ownership, mission, and payment program participation and examined how those characteristics were related to their patterns of physician integration in 2018.

Data collection/extraction methods

We examined local healthc

SUBMITTER: Machta RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720709 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature