This article describes staffing patterns for nearly 500 primary care practices in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Comprehensive Primary Care initiative before the initiative began. The study found most of the practices used traditional staffing models and did not report having...

This article analyzed the experiences of the School of Medicine’s care-management program as it took part in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration, with the goal of reducing hospitalizations and Medicare spending or improving quality while remaining cost neutral. The study showed...

This article identifies a high-risk subgroup of Medicare beneficiaries in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration for which 4 of the 11 participating programs significantly reduced hospitalizations, and the distinguishing features of those successful programs. Frequent in-person contact (in...

Patients in Medicare HMOs who experience strokes are more likely to be discharged to nursing homes and less likely to go to rehabilitation facilities following the acute event. However, they have similar survival patterns compared with comparable patients in FFS settings after adjusting for...

Summary for publication Does Managed Care Work for Medicare An Evaluation of the Medicare Risk Program for HMOs