Impact of accountable care organizations on utilization, care, and outcomes: a systematic review

BG Kaufman, BS Spivack, SC Stearns… - … Care Research and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Since 2010, more than 900 accountable care organizations (ACOs) have formed payment
contracts with public and private insurers in the United States; however, there has not been …

Lessons for achieving health equity comparing Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States

MH Chin, PT King, RG Jones, B Jones, SN Ameratunga… - Health Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Aotearoa/New Zealand (Aotearoa/NZ) and the United States (US) suffer inequities
in health outcomes by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. This paper compares both …

[HTML][HTML] Health care spending, utilization, and quality 8 years into global payment

Z Song, Y Ji, DG Safran… - New England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Population-based global payment gives health care providers a spending
target for the care of a defined group of patients. We examined changes in spending …

[HTML][HTML] Horizontal and vertical integration of health care providers: a framework for understanding various provider organizational structures

J Heeringa, A Mutti, MF Furukawa… - … journal of integrated …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: In 2016, we conducted a narrative review of 10 years of literature to identify
definitional components of key organizational structures in the United States. A clear …

Transformation of the health care industry: curb your enthusiasm?

LR Burns, MV Pauly - The Milbank Quarterly, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points: Policymakers seek to transform the US health care system along two
dimensions simultaneously: alternative payment models and new models of provider …

Addressing adverse childhood experiences in primary care: challenges and considerations

H Dubowitz, D Finkelhor, A Zolotor, J Kleven… - Pediatrics, 2022 - publications.aap.org
This article draws attention to the overlapping literature on social determinants of health and
adverse childhood experiences, and the growing clinical interest in addressing them to …

Quality of primary care provided to Medicare beneficiaries by nurse practitioners and physicians

P Buerhaus, J Perloff, S Clarke, M O'Reilly-Jacob… - Medical care, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine differences in the quality of care provided by primary care nurse
practitioners (PCNPs), primary care physicians (PCMDs), or both clinicians. Data Sources …

Evaluating measures of hospital quality: Evidence from ambulance referral patterns

J Doyle, J Graves, J Gruber - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Hospital quality measures are crucial to a key idea behind health care payment
reforms:“paying for quality” instead of quantity. Nevertheless, such measures face major …

The effect of nurse practitioner scope of practice laws on primary care delivery

LB Smith - Health Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are an increasingly integral part of the primary care workforce.
NPs' authority to practice without physician oversight is regulated by state‐level scope of …

Performance in the Medicare Shared Savings Program after accounting for nonrandom exit: an instrumental variable analysis

AA Markovitz, JM Hollingsworth, JZ Ayanian… - Annals of internal …, 2019 - acpjournals.org
Background: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings
Program (MSSP) are associated with modest savings. However, prior research may …