How to Identify Team-based Primary Care in the United States Using Medicare Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studying team-based primary care using 100% national outpatient Medicare data is not feasible, due to limitations in the availability of this dataset to researchers.

Methods

We assessed whether analyses using different sets of Medicare data can produce results similar to those from analyses using 100% data from an entire state, in identifying primary care teams through social network analysis. First, we used data from 100% Medicare beneficiaries, restricted to those within a primary care services area (PCSA), to identify primary care teams. Second, we used data from a 20% sample of Medicare beneficiaries and defined shared care by 2 providers using 2 different cutoffs for the minimum required number of shared patients, to identify primary care teams.

Results

SUBMITTER: Kuo YF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855067 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature