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September 12, 2012 | Journal Article
In the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD), 10 accountable care organization (ACO) physician groups were eligible to receive a portion of savings generated if they also showed improvement on 32 quality measures. The Centers for Me ...
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.
August 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The authors found a significant, though not necessarily causal, relationship between physician ownership of ambulatory treatment centers for urinary stones, and utilization of such centers by the urologists who own them.
March 24, 2010 | Story
What policy changes might be required if physicians are to take a more active role in improving quality and reining in costs?
September 1, 1999 | Journal Article
Do Conferences, Workshops, Rounds, and Other Traditional Continuing Education Activities Change Physician Behavior or Health Care Outcomes?
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.
May 14, 2009 | News Release
Physicians spend the equivalent of nearly three work weeks on health plan interactions.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The Church Health Center of Memphis led a community-wide effort to expand the "Memphis Plan," which the center had created in 1991 as an affordable health care program for lower-wage, uninsured working people.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Starting in February 1995, investigators at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, conducted the Physician Compensation Research Project.
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) provides small, primary-care practices with tools, support, coaching and a collaborative learning environment in which they can assess their performance and engage systematically in improvement activities. Th ...