Open AccessPhysician Cost Profiling — Reliability and Risk of Misclassification
Author(s) -
John Adams,
Ateev Mehrotra,
James W. Thomas,
Elizabeth A. McGlynn
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmsa0906323
Subject(s) - medicine , quartile , health care , specialty , cost estimate , confidence interval , family medicine , management , economics , economic growth
Insurance products with incentives for patients to choose physicians classified as offering lower-cost care on the basis of cost-profiling tools are increasingly common. However, no rigorous evaluation has been undertaken to determine whether these tools can accurately distinguish higher-cost physicians from lower-cost physicians.
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