Association of Primary Care Engagement in Value-Based Reform Programs With Health Services Outcomes: Participation and Synergies.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Policy makers envision synergistic benefits from primary care reform programs that advance infrastructure and processes in the context of a supportive payment environment. However, these programs have been operationalized and implemented separately, raising the question of whether synergies are achieved.

Objective

To evaluate associations between primary care engagement in voluntary delivery system and/or payment reform programs and health services outcomes.

Design setting and participants

This was an observational longitudinal analysis of US ambulatory primary care organizations (PCOs) with attributed Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries (1.6-1.9 million unique beneficiaries annually) using data for 2009, 2010, and 2015 to 2017; PCOs included multispecia

SUBMITTER: Adler-Milstein J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8903108 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature