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September 1, 2011 | Report
This article explores the indirect, or spillover, health care effects of a high uninsurance rates. Working-age adults with private insurance living in areas with a high rate of uninsurance were less likely than their peers in areas with a low uninsurance rate to have a usual source of care, an office-based visit, and any medical care expenditures.
May 14, 2009 | Journal Article
Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staff spend interacting with health plans. Participants in this national study spent an average of $68,274 per physician per year interacting with health plans.
January 7, 2009 | Story
While there is slow adoption of the patient-centered-medical home (PCMH), the largest of the large medical groups have the most comprehensive PCMH infrastructures.
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
September 19, 2011 | Program Result
In 2009 and 2010, researchers at UCLA and RAND measured the impact of high local rates of uninsurance on access to care and the quality of care among adults with health insurance.
May 20, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the use of evidence-based care management processes by large physician organizations. Care management processes are designed to improve care for people with chronic illness. Over 90 million Americans have a chronic illness and chronic illness is responsible for more than three-quarters of national health care costs.
January 27, 2011 | Program Result
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This survey on quality-based payment found that the prevalence of external performance bonuses paid by insurers to large medical groups is larger than the prevalence of performance bonuses paid by the medical groups to the primary care and specialist physicians.
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Various factors influence the adoption of clinical information technology in health service organizations. More than 500 medical groups and independent practice associations participated in this study. Detailed tabulations present findings related to a broad range of electronic capabilities.