Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Primary Care Physicians and Spending on Low-Value Care
- Aaron Baum, PhD
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
- Lars Peterson, MD, PhD
- Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD
- Keith Humphreys, PhD
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
Submitted on: January, 2021
Background: Low-value services account for $75 billion to $100 billion of U.S. health care spending. Primary care physicians (PCPs) have been conceptualized as potential gatekeepers for efforts to reduce low-value spending, but the share of low-value spending directly related to their services and referral decisions remains unclear .
Objective: To estimate the share of low-value spending on Medicare beneficiaries that is directly related to their attributed PCP’s services or referrals.
Methods and Findings: We analyzed Medicare Part B claims from a 20% random sample of beneficiaries enrolled between 2007 and 2014. The study population included beneficiaries who were …
Rural Workforce Years: Quantifying the Rural Workforce Contribution of Family Medicine Residency Graduates
- Peter Meyers, MD, MPH
- Elizabeth Wilkinson, BA
- Stephen Petterson, PhD
- Davis G. Patterson, PhD
- Randall Longenecker, MD
- David Schmitz, MD
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Submitted on: January, 2021
Rural regions of the United States continue to experience a disproportionate shortage of physicians compared to urban regions despite decades of state and federal investments in workforce initiatives. The graduate medical education system effectively controls the size of the physician workforce but lacks effective mechanisms to equitably distribute those physicians.
Designing Future State to Account for Social Risk in CMS Payments
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Submitted on: January, 2021
This invitation only workshop is a one, full-day brainstorming event to design a future state CMS payment system that incorporates social risk in a sustainable, equitable way. This convening of CMS, ASPE, safety net health plan, clinician, state, and patient stakeholders provides the unique opportunity to collaboratively design potential new approaches to risk adjustment for the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
