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Comprehension and Choice of a Consumer-Directed Health Plan: An Experimental StudyThis study highlights the difficulty many consumers have in understanding comparative plan information. It also suggests that presentation strategies may help consumers understand choices better.
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Medical Home Effects on Enrollees With Mental and Physical IllnessMedical home enrollment had mixed effects on acute care use and a large effect on outpatient care use. Effects on expenditures varied by mental illness.
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Health Systems and Telemedicine Adoption for Diabetes and Hypertension CareSmall practices reduced their use of telemedicine during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technical support may help expand and maintain telemedicine in small practices.
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Electronic Health Records, Clinical Decision Support, and Blood Pressure ControlPhysician use of EHRs with CDS is associated with increased blood pressure control and lower mean systolic blood pressure across US primary care visits.
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Association of Decision Support for Hospital Discharge Disposition With OutcomesThe use of clinical decision support for hospital discharge disposition was associated with a reduction in spending and readmissions without negatively affecting emergency department use.
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Medical Care Costs Among Patients With Established Cardiovascular DiseaseThe economic burden of providing care to patients with cardiovascular disease, driven by secondary hospitalizations, may be substantially greater than current American Heart Association estimates.
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Benchmarking Physician Performance: Reliability of Individual and Composite MeasuresAt least 50 quality events per physician are needed to reach a minimum level of reliability for most quality measures calculated from administrative data.
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Connected Care: Improving Outcomes for Adults With Serious Mental IllnessCase study of a payer-led intervention to improve coordination of care for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness.
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Improving Partnerships Between Health Plans and Medical GroupsTo provide guidance for successful partnerships, the authors identify common themes from their experience with successful health plan/medical group partnerships programs.
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Patient Satisfaction Surveys: A Continuous NCODA Initiative for Improvement Within the Oncology Dispensing PracticeNCODA presents findings from over 700 patient responses across the country to determine patient satisfaction over 4 categories: time, convenience, staff interaction, and overall satisfaction.
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Genetic Counselors Save Costs Across the Genetic Testing SpectrumGenetic counselors (GCs) increasingly serve a variety of roles across the healthcare spectrum, including test utilization management. Our data show that utilizing the expertise of GCs reduced test order errors, improved patient outcomes, and resulted in significant cost savings to the healthcare system.
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Against the Current: Back-Transfer as a Mechanism for Rural RegionalizationThe authors investigated back-transfer: the transfer of patients near the end of an acute hospitalization to a local community hospital for completion of their medical care.
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Factors Influencing Primary Care Providers’ Decisions to Accept New Medicaid Patients Under Michigan’s Medicaid ExpansionIn the era after Medicaid expansion, primary care providers placed importance on practice capacity, specialist availability, and reimbursement when deciding whether to accept new Medicaid patients.
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Physician and Patient Tools to Improve Chronic Kidney Disease CareDecision support tools, disease registries, and patient engagement materials can improve population-based chronic kidney disease care.
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Measuring Value for Low-Acuity Care Across SettingsTo analyze value of low-acuity care, an existing model is adapted to highlight factors impacting how stakeholders assess emergency department care compared with alternatives.
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Population Health in Primary Care: Cost, Quality, and Experience ImpactAn evaluation of the use of predictive modeling for primary care resource allocation demonstrated reduced spending and improved quality and patient experience for publicly insured adults.
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Payer Coverage for Patients Enrolled Onto Clinical Trials: Making the Process Easy and Transparent for EveryoneIt is not just 1 physician who cares for a patient enrolled onto a clinical trial but rather a complex system of several physician teams, sometimes with very different opinions, who must work together for therapy to be successful and for the patient to have faith in his treating team.
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The Financial Impact of Team-Based Care on Primary CareAlthough team-based care improved cardiovascular disease risk factors, it had a negative financial impact on a primary care practice.
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Can Targeted Messaging Encourage PCP Contact Before ED Visits?Targeted messaging that encourages heavy ED users in managed care to contact their primary care providers before ED visits shows promise.
