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May 18, 2010 | Journal Article
When a patient sees multiple doctors, health plan and government analysts use different rules to assign primary responsibility to a single physician. This article presents a study that examined how those rules affect a physician's cost profile (e.g., high cost or low cost).
March 18, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the accuracy of tools to identify lower-cost physicians. Many proposed health reforms rely on the identification of physicians who provide lower-cost services for a given condition. However, no rigorous evaluation has assessed whether the tools used to identify lower-cost physicians are accurate.
April 6, 2007 | Program Result
In 2001, MaineHealth, a nonprofit health system serving southern and central Maine, established CarePartners, a health plan using a network of providers offering volunteer care to the uninsured.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1991 to 1995, researchers at the University of Southern Maine, Human Services Development Institute compared health care utilization rates between previously uninsured and previously insured persons enrolled in state-sponsored insurance programs.