Podcast: Hector Rodriguez argues brick-and-mortar health care consolidation is short-sighted
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Practice Capabilities And Spending
Hector Rodriguez and coauthors examine the association of physician practice-level capabilities with process measures of quality, utilization, and spending using a nationally representative set of physician practices linked to Medicare claims.

The authors find that physician practices with robust capabilities across domains of technology, management, and patient-centered focus have lower total spending on Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries compared to practices with more limited capabilities.

Savings are concentrated in outpatient spending, which has important policy implications “because value-based payment reforms have largely focused on preventing emergency department and hospitalization use as a primary way to reduce total spending,” Rodriguez and coauthors explain.

Rodriguez discusses health care consolidation in greater detail with Health Affairs editor-in-chief Alan Weil on an episode of A Health Podyssey.
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Mariam Krikorian Atkinson and coauthors examine the challenges and advantages that rural hospitals have faced during the pandemic.

Based on conversations with emergency management leaders at 12 different hospitals, the authors glean several lessons for rural hospitals responding to a crisis.

Elevating Voices: Women’s History Month: In the May 2021 Narrative Matters essay, Krista Lyn Harrison describes how the hospice model fails when patients die slowly.

“Hospice has become care for people dying fast, not for those trying to live well while dying slow,” Harrison writes as she recounts her stepfather’s experience in hospice with a neurodegenerative disease.
Hector Rodriguez Argues Brick-And-Mortar Health Care Consolidation Is Short-Sighted

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Hector Rodriguez from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health about the relationship between physician practice capabilities and service metrics, including quality, utilization, and spending.
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