Financial and quality impacts of the medicare Physician Group practice demonstration

Medicare and Medicaid Research Review

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Pope, Gregory ^a   Kautter, John ^a   Leung, Musetta ^a   Trisolini, Michael ^a   Adamache, Walter ^a   Smith, Kevin ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountable care organization; Cost efficiency; Medicare Physician Group Practice demonstration; Quality of care; Shared savings

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EMERGENCY WARD; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; PHYSICIAN; UNITED STATES;

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS; COST SAVINGS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908255168     PISSN: 21590354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.004.03.a01     Document Type: Article

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