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Home Research Research Library More Comprehensive Care Among Family Physicians is Associated with Lower Costs and Fewer Hospitalizations More Comprehensive Care Among Family Physicians is Associated with Lower Costs and Fewer Hospitalizations 2015 Author(s) Bazemore, Andrew W, Petterson, Stephen M, Peterson, Lars E, and Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, and Quality Of Care Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine PURPOSE: Comprehensiveness is lauded as 1 of the 5 core virtues of primary care, but its relationship with outcomes is unclear. We measured associations between variations in comprehensiveness of practice among family physicians and healthcare utilization and costs for their Medicare beneficiaries. METHODS: We merged data from 2011 Medicare Part A and B claims files for a complex random sample of family physicians engaged in direct patient care, including 100% of their claimed care of Medicare beneficiaries, with data reported by the same physicians during their participation in Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) between the years 2007 and 2011. We created a measure of comprehensiveness from mandatory self-reported survey items as part of MC-FP examination registration. We compared this measure to another derived from Medicare’s Berenson-Eggers Type of Service (BETOS) codes. We then examined the association between the 2 measures of comprehensiveness and hospitalizations, Part B payments, and combined Part A and B payments. RESULTS: Our full family physician sample consists of 3,652 physicians providing the plurality of care to 555,165 Medicare beneficiaries. Of these, 1,133 recertified between 2007 and 2011 and cared for 185,044 beneficiaries. There was a modest correlation (0.30) between the BETOS and self-reported comprehensiveness measures. After adjusting for beneficiary and physician characteristics, increasing comprehensiveness was associated with lower total Medicare Part A and B costs and Part B costs alone, but not with hospitalizations; the association with spending was stronger for the BETOS measure than for the self-reported measure; higher BETOS scores significantly reduced the likelihood of a hospitalization. CONCLUSIONS: Increasing family physician comprehensiveness of care, especially as measured by claims measures, is associated with decreasing Medicare costs and hospitalizations. Payment and practice policies that enhance primary care comprehensiveness may help “bend the cost curve.” Read More ABFM Research Read all 2018 Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement Go to Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement 2024 Setting the Target: Comparing Family Medicine Among US Allopathic Target Schools Go to Setting the Target: Comparing Family Medicine Among US Allopathic Target Schools 2023 Impact of Service-Based Student Loan Repayment Program on the Primary Care Workforce Go to Impact of Service-Based Student Loan Repayment Program on the Primary Care Workforce 2022 Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Among Older Mexican-Origin Populations in the U.S Go to Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Among Older Mexican-Origin Populations in the U.S
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