Journal article
Primary care physicians' participation in the Medicare shared savings program and preventive services delivery: Evidence from the first 7 years
Health services research, Vol.57(5), pp.1182-1190
10/2022
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14030
PMCID: PMC9441290
PMID: 35808929
Abstract
Objective
To evaluate whether primary care physicians' participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) is associated with changes in their preventive services delivery.
Data Sources
Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File and MSSP Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Provider‐Level Research Identifiable File from 2012 to 2018.
Study Design
The design was a two‐way fixed effects model estimating within‐provider changes in preventive services delivery over time controlling for provider time‐invariant characteristics, national time trends, and characteristics of served patients. The following preventive services were evaluated: influenza vaccination, pneumococcal vaccination, clinical depression screening, colorectal cancer screening, breast cancer screening, Body Mass Index (BMI) screening and follow‐up, tobacco use assessment, and annual wellness visits. Both the likelihood of providing services and the volume of services delivered were evaluated.
Data Collection/Extraction Methods
Secondary data linked at the provider level.
Principal Findings
MSSP participation was associated with an increase in the likelihood of providing influenza vaccination (0.7 percentage‐points), pneumococcal vaccination (2.0 percentage‐points), clinical depression screening (2.1 percentage‐points), tobacco use assessment (0.3 percentage‐points), and annual wellness visits (4.1 percentage‐points). A similar increase was found for the volume of services delivered per 100 patients for several preventive services: influenza vaccination (0.18), pneumococcal vaccination (0.56), clinical depression screening (0.46), and annual wellness visits (1.52). MSSP participation was associated with a decrease in the likelihood (−0.4 percentage‐points) and the volume of colorectal cancer screening (−0.03).
Conclusions
Primary care physicians' participation in MSSP was associated with an increase in the likelihood and the volume of several preventive services.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Primary care physicians' participation in the Medicare shared savings program and preventive services delivery: Evidence from the first 7 years
- Creators
- Huang Huang - University of IowaXi Zhu - Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, 31-269 CHS, 650 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA.George L. Wehby - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health services research, Vol.57(5), pp.1182-1190
- DOI
- 10.1111/1475-6773.14030
- PMID
- 35808929
- PMCID
- PMC9441290
- NLM abbreviation
- Health Serv Res
- ISSN
- 0017-9124
- eISSN
- 1475-6773
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (#U1C RH20419) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2022
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Health Management and Policy; Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984293312702771
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