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.
Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM)
- Jill C. Shuemaker
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Warren P. Newton, MD, MPH
Submitted on: July, 2020
COVID-19 altered the way the American public lived their lives; the way they worked, ate, socialized, traveled, and ultimately received their health care. Family Medicine largely closed its doors to face-to-face preventive and chronic care visits and made a large shift to telephone and online video visits. Ten days after the World Health Organization pronounced that the COVID-19 outbreak was a global pandemic, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced that CMS was granting exceptions from reporting requirements, “so the health care delivery system can direct its time and resources toward caring for patients.”
AAMC-CFAS News highlights new Harvard Medical School, ABFM joint study: Potential $15 billion hit to primary care physicians from COVID-19
- Ron Shinkman
Submitted on: June, 2020
Medical practices across the United States have been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and the American Board of Family Medicine attempts to put a price tag on that hit by running a microsimulation for projected 2020 revenues based on volume data for general practices, general internal medicine practices, general pediatric practices and family medicine practices.
As a result, they concluded that the average revenue loss per practice per physician will be $67,774, even taking into account revenue generated by telemedicine visits, which did not make up for the massive loss of patient volume during the spring.
Primary Care Spending in the United States, 2002-2016
- Sara Martin, MD, MSc
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Stephen Petterson, PhD
- Zachary Levin, MS
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Submitted on: May, 2020
Insufficient investment in primary care is one reason that the US health care system continues to underperform relative to the health systems in other high-income countries. States and countries with greater access to primary care clinicians and more robust primary care services have better outcomes and lower costs. For this reason, Rhode Island and Oregon have mandated measurement and targeting of primary care expenditures, and other states are considering related legislation.
