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.
Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings
- Alex R. Webb
- Winston Liaw
- YoonKyung Chung, PhD
- Stephen Petterson, PhD
- Andrew Bazemore
Submitted on: December, 2019
Purpose: Primary care physicians are increasingly participating in accountable care organizations (ACOs). While prior studies have identified ACO and patient characteristics associated with savings, none have examined characteristics of the communities served by ACOs. Our objective was to assess the relationship between an ACO’s service area characteristics and its savings rate.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we used the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2014 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO Provider and Beneficiary, and Public Use Files to identify ACO and beneficiary characteristics.
Changes and Variation in Medicare Graduate Medical Education Payments
- Candice Chen, MD, MPH
- YoonKyung Chung, PhD
- Stephen Petterson, PhD
Submitted on: October, 2019
Graduate medical education (GME), the training of resident physicians, is funded by GME payments to hospitals and health systems, largely from Medicare and Medicaid. The number, specialty, and practice locations1 of future physicians is heavily dependent on how GME positions are determined and placed. In 2015, Medicare alone provided $12.5 billion in GME payments to teaching hospitals. Yet, shortages persist in select specialties, such as primary care, and in rural and underserved areas.
Medical Professionalism: A contract with society
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
- Warren P. Newton, MD, MPH
- Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP
Submitted on: October, 2019
The modern era of medicine has brought about incredible advances in science and technology to improve the care of patients and population health. Additionally, major social changes are occurring that im-pact society, patients, physicians, medicine, health care, and medical education. Medical professionals are governed by ethical codes, and make a commitment to competence, integrity, morality, altruism, and support of the public good. This is a social contract, a covenant of trust with patients and society, that determines medicine’s values and responsibilities in the care of the patient.
