Association of Low-Value Care Exposure With Health Care Experience Ratings Among Patient Panels.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient reviews of health care experiences are increasingly used for public reporting and alternative payment models. Critics have argued that this incentivizes physicians to provide more care, including low-value care, undermining efforts to reduce wasteful practices.

Objective

To assess associations between rates of low-value service provision to a primary care professional (PCP) patient panel and patients' ratings of their health care experiences.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study used Medicare fee-for-service claims from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2014, for a random 20% sample of beneficiaries to identify beneficiaries for whom each of 8 low-value services could be ordered but would be considered unnecessary. The stu

SUBMITTER: Sanghavi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature