Evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 365,076
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Medicare expenditures
研究概览
简要总结
This study assesses the effects of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative on physician practices, practice staff, Medicare and Medicaid costs and service utilization, quality of care, and patient outcomes. CPC provides financial resources, timely feedback on key practice outcomes, and a learning network to support practice transformation to improve quality of care and lower costs.
详细描述
CMS selected 7 regions (states or substate areas) to include in this study, based on commitment of other (ie, nonMedicare) payers in the area to provide financial resources to participating practices to support practice transformation to improve quality of care, reduce costs, and improve population health. 497 practices were selected from roughly 1000 applicants in the 7 regions to participate in the study. CMS pays participating practices a per member per month care management fee for each Medicare patient attributed to the practice. The practices also receive quarterly feedback on trends in their Medicare patients' use of hospital and emergency room services, Medicare expenditures, and patient outcomes from periodic surveys. Practices are expected to improve patient outcomes and lower Medicare costs per patient by using the additional resources to improve: risk-stratified care management, access and continuity of care, planned chronic and preventive care, patient and caregiver engagement, and coordination across the medical neighborhood. To remain in the study, practices must meet annual milestones for meaningful use of electronic health records and other practice features. The intervention period, which began in Fall 2012, will continue for 4 years.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 21 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Medicare beneficiary attributed to CPC practice or to a matched comparison practice. Patients are attributed to the practice from which they received the most E&M visits during the 2-year period examined.
排除标准
- •Beneficiaries enrolled in a managed care plan.
研究组 & 干预措施
Treatment group
Practices assigned to the treatment group received per member per month care management fees for each Medicare beneficiary attributed to their practice. They also received quarterly feedback reports on their patients' average Medicare expenditures and use of hospital and emergency room services. Practices also had access to regional learning faculties for technical assistance with transformation activities and to share lessons across practices.
干预措施: care management fee (Other)
Treatment group
Practices assigned to the treatment group received per member per month care management fees for each Medicare beneficiary attributed to their practice. They also received quarterly feedback reports on their patients' average Medicare expenditures and use of hospital and emergency room services. Practices also had access to regional learning faculties for technical assistance with transformation activities and to share lessons across practices.
干预措施: feedback reports (Other)
Treatment group
Practices assigned to the treatment group received per member per month care management fees for each Medicare beneficiary attributed to their practice. They also received quarterly feedback reports on their patients' average Medicare expenditures and use of hospital and emergency room services. Practices also had access to regional learning faculties for technical assistance with transformation activities and to share lessons across practices.
干预措施: technical assistance (Other)
Comparison group
Within each of the 7 regions, this group is comprised of practices that were matched to the treatment practices on a wide range of baseline characteristics of the practices (including their service utilization patterns) and their patients. Comparison practices were selected from a pool of practices including those that applied to participate but were not selected, and practices serving nearby external comparison areas.
结局指标
主要结局
Medicare expenditures
时间窗: 12 months
average Medicare expenditures per month in Medicare fee-for-service
次要结局
- 30-day hospital readmission rate(30-days)
- number of ER visits(12 months)
- number of hospital admissions(12 months)
- hospital admission for ambulatory care sensitive condition(12 months)
研究者
Randy Brown
Project Director; Director of Health Services Research
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.