Open AccessDistribution of Visits for Chronic Conditions Between Primary Care and Specialist Providers in Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organizations
Author(s) -
Evan S. Cole,
Cassandra Leighton,
Yuting Zhang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000903
Subject(s) - primary care , business , distribution (mathematics) , multiple chronic conditions , chronic care , nursing , family medicine , medicine , chronic disease , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may focus more on primary care given ACO financial incentives. We examine variation in primary care treatment of 8 prevalent chronic conditions across ACOs and the factors affecting the variation, and compare the role of primary care in ACOs and non-ACOs.