Improvement in patient outcomes from collaboration between pharmacists and physicians in ambulatory clinics has been well documented. Barriers to payment have made widespread growth of these collaborations slow. Medicare annual wellness visits (AWVs) and chronic care management (CCM) provide an opportunity for pharmacist-physician collaborations th...
Published in Journal of general internal medicine
It remains unclear whether the racial-ethnic composition or the socioeconomic profiles of eligible primary care practices better explain practice participation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program. To examine whether practices serving high proportions of Black or Latino Medicare fee...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction Telehealth can potentially improve the quality of healthcare through increased access to primary care. While telehealth use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, racial/ethnic disparities in the use of telemedicine persisted during this period. Little is known about the relationship between health coverage and patient race/ethnicity ...
Published in Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
We evaluated the impact of reimbursement for non-face-to-face chronic care management (NFFCCM) on healthcare utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes in Louisiana. We implemented group-based trajectory balancing and propensity score matching to obtain comparable treatment (with NFFCCM) and control (without NFFCCM) groups at bas...
BackgroundIt remains unclear whether the racial-ethnic composition or the socioeconomic profiles of eligible primary care practices better explain practice participation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program.ObjectiveTo examine whether practices serving high proportions of Black or L...
INTRODUCTION: Telehealth can potentially improve the quality of healthcare through increased access to primary care. While telehealth use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, racial/ethnic disparities in the use of telemedicine persisted during this period. Little is known about the relationship between health coverage and patient race/ethnicity...
Published in Health services research
To identify potential orderings of primary care practice adoption of patient engagement strategies overall and separately for interpersonally and technologically oriented strategies. We analyzed physician practice survey data (n = 71) on the adoption of 12 patient engagement strategies. Mokken scale analysis was used to assess latent traits among t...
OBJECTIVE: To identify potential orderings of primary care practice adoption of patient engagement strategies overall and separately for interpersonally and technologically oriented strategies. DATA SOURCES: We analyzed physician practice survey data (n = 71) on the adoption of 12 patient engagement strategies. STUDY DESIGN: Mokken scale analysis w...
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health
Frail chronic patients consume the largest share of resources in advanced healthcare systems, with more hospitals waiting to receive them in the acute phase (awaiting paradigm) than there are effective public health interventions to keep them out of hospitals as much as possible. Effective chronic care management (CCM) requires organizational resea...
Published in JMIR formative research
Population aging and multimorbidity has led to increasing chronic care needs associated with new challenges in managing growing costs, rising health care professional workloads, and the adoption of rigorous guidelines. These issues could all benefit from greater digitalization and a more patient-centered approach to chronic care, a situation brough...
