Costs of Specialist Referrals From Employer-Sponsored Integrated Health Care Clinics Are Lower Than Those From Community Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There have been very few published studies of referral management among commercially insured populations and none on referral management from employer-sponsored health centers.

Objective

Describe the referral management system of an integrated employer-sponsored health care system and compare specialist referral rates and costs of specialist visits between those initiated from employer-sponsored health clinics and those initiated from community providers.

Design

Retrospective, comparative cohort study using multivariate analysis of medical claims comparing care initiated in employer-sponsored health clinics with propensity-matched controls having specialist referrals initiated by community providers.

Patients

Adult patients (≥ 18 years) eligible for

SUBMITTER: Wright JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9321287 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature