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Trends in market share among hospitals participating in ACOs and nonparticipants. 参加ACOs和未参加ACOs的医院之间的市场份额趋势。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89767
Mariétou H Ouayogodé, Xiaodan Liang, David B Muhlestein
{"title":"Trends in market share among hospitals participating in ACOs and nonparticipants.","authors":"Mariétou H Ouayogodé, Xiaodan Liang, David B Muhlestein","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89767","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong> To assess trends in market share (MS) over time among hospitals participating in Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) and non-ACO participants, and evaluate correlates of differences.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Longitudinal study of US hospital and ACO data for 3534 short-term acute care hospitals ever participating in Medicare ACOs or not across hospital referral regions (HRRs) from Milliman Torch Insight (2011-2020).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using HRR as the local market, we calculated 3 hospital MS measures using annual net patient revenue, discharges, and beds, and we calculated market concentration using a modified Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. We compared hospital characteristics by Medicare ACO participation. In longitudinal, multivariable ordinary least squares regressions, we examined the association among hospital MS, ACO participation, and market concentration.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> Thirty percent of hospitals (n = 1048) reported ever participating in ACOs. Across MS measures, ACO participants had larger MS, with a mean MS of 11.5 (vs 8.5 for nonparticipants) for net patient revenue, 11.4 (vs 8.4) for discharges, and 10.9 (vs 8.6) for beds. The difference in MS between ACO participants and nonparticipants was larger in more concentrated markets relative to less concentrated markets. ACO participation was associated with increases in mean MS of 1.7 percentage points (PP) for net patient revenue, 2.0 PP for discharges, and 1.6 PP for beds. ACO participation was associated with additional MS gains in more (vs less) concentrated markets. More importantly, baseline (2011) MS emerged as the most important predictor of MS growth.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Hospitals participating in ACOs still surpass nonparticipants on MS. Our finding that baseline MS is most predictive of future MS growth suggests that competition should be managed prior to ACO entry and participation should be closely monitored in concentrated markets. With competition fostering quality and improving patient welfare, MS gains associated with hospital ACO participation may suggest the need for future assessments to ensure that quality and patient welfare do not decrease over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 7","pages":"354-360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Understanding insurance coverage policies for incretin mimetics for weight management. 了解用于体重管理的肠促胰岛素模拟药物的保险政策。
IF 2.1 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89685
Dina H Griauzde, Eli W Carter, Lauren Oshman, Jonathan Gabison, Andrew Kraftson, A Mark Fendrick, Stephen Lott
{"title":"Understanding insurance coverage policies for incretin mimetics for weight management.","authors":"Dina H Griauzde, Eli W Carter, Lauren Oshman, Jonathan Gabison, Andrew Kraftson, A Mark Fendrick, Stephen Lott","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89685","DOIUrl":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89685","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Given the wide variation in insurance coverage for incretin mimetics for weight management (IMWM) in the US, we aimed to understand (1) coverage policies for IMWM and influencing factors, (2) coverage policies for other weight management treatments, and (3) opportunities to support weight management while constraining health care costs.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Qualitative study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were leaders and high-level employees from large health insurance organizations in the US. Our aim was to survey 20 participants, 10 from organizations that covered IMWM and 10 that excluded coverage for IMWM. Participants completed a 30-minute interview. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using directed content analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty individuals completed an interview; 9 interviewees were from organizations that covered IMWM at the time of the study, and 11 were from organizations that excluded coverage for IMWM. We identified 5 key themes: (1) high cost as the primary barrier to coverage of IMWM, (2) perception of obesity as a lifestyle choice, (3) current or planned use of varied utilization management strategies to limit initial and ongoing prescribing of IMWM, (4) coverage for lifestyle-change programs to support weight management, and (5) perceived responsibility of pharmaceutical companies to lower list prices for IMWM to enable broad coverage and advance health equity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>High cost of IMWM is the primary limiting factor in coverage policies. There is variability in plan design, with utilization management strategies that aim to reduce near-term spending. Health plan leaders call on pharmaceutical companies to reduce list prices to increase equitable access to IMWM.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 7","pages":"342-349"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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How value-based care with provider enablement improves maternal and infant outcomes in Medicaid. 如何以价值为基础的护理与提供者使能改善医疗补助的母婴结局。
IF 2.1 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89754
Benjamin Howell, Leah Ramirez, Kristin Austin, Sara Varner, Bryony Winn, Tiffany Inglis
{"title":"How value-based care with provider enablement improves maternal and infant outcomes in Medicaid.","authors":"Benjamin Howell, Leah Ramirez, Kristin Austin, Sara Varner, Bryony Winn, Tiffany Inglis","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89754","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Medicaid holds significant responsibility for improving maternal and infant health in the US. Utilizing value-based care (VBC) that offers additional support to providers is one strategy by which the Medicaid system can improve these outcomes. In this analysis, we examined a Medicaid managed care plan's incentive-only VBC program, which is supported by a provider enablement team to assist care providers in meeting program goals.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Cross-sectional analysis of deliveries occurring between July 2020 and June 2022 from Elevance Health-affiliated Medicaid managed care plans operating in 16 states.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study primarily relied on medical claims data to compare maternal, infant, and cost outcomes in Medicaid members with a care provider participating in a supported VBC program vs those with a care provider not participating in supported VBC. A propensity-balanced multivariable regression model was used to estimate the impact of participation vs nonparticipation in supported VBC on delivery, cost, and quality outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Members with a care provider supported in the VBC program had significantly lower neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) lengths of stay, preterm births, and low birth weights; significantly better timeliness and adequacy of prenatal care rates; and significantly lower birth costs, NICU costs, and maternal and infant costs in the first year after birth.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results provide insight into how payers and care providers can partner to improve maternal and infant outcomes among Medicaid members and subsequently experience cost savings.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144977632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Impact of COVID-19 on specialty televisits in a large integrated health care system. COVID-19对大型综合医疗保健系统中专业电视的影响。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89749
Joyce J Kim, Robert G Holleman, Lewei Allison Lin, Sameer D Saini, Megan A Adams
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 on specialty televisits in a large integrated health care system.","authors":"Joyce J Kim, Robert G Holleman, Lewei Allison Lin, Sameer D Saini, Megan A Adams","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89749","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic stimulated an unprecedented expansion in use of video and telephone visits (televisits) for routine specialty care as a substitute for in-person clinic visits. However, the sustainability of televisit use for specialty care delivery following the pandemic is unclear.</p><p><strong>Study design/methods: </strong>In this descriptive, retro-spective study of national Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data, we assessed total outpatient visit volume by month in 9 specialties (cardiology, dermatology, eye care, gastroenterology [GI]/hepatology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, podiatry, substance use disorder [SUD], and urology) at all VHA facilities in the US between January 2019 (pre-COVID-19) and September 2023 (representing late phases of health system recovery post COVID-19). We also categorized outpatient visits by modality (in person, telephone, video) and assessed time trends in the proportion of total outpatient visits in each specialty delivered by televisit. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the study findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Although total visit volumes in most VHA specialties had returned to pre-COVID-19 baselines by the end of the study period, they did not fully rebound in others, suggesting persistent care gaps. Televisit use increased from a mean of 7% in quarter 1 (Q1) 2019 to 54% in Q2 2020, then decreased modestly to 27% of all specialty visits by Q3 2023. The specialties with the highest sustained televisit use in Q3 2023 were SUD and GI, despite restored in-person visit availability. The use of telephone visits exceeded the use of video visits throughout the study period.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings suggest that televisits will likely remain an important visit modality for patients in the postpandemic era.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 6","pages":"296-300"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Factors that increase utilization management risk: a proof of concept. 增加利用管理风险的因素:概念证明。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89748
Jason Shafrin, Jacob Fajnor, Shurui Zhang, Donald E Nichols
{"title":"Factors that increase utilization management risk: a proof of concept.","authors":"Jason Shafrin, Jacob Fajnor, Shurui Zhang, Donald E Nichols","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89748","DOIUrl":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To (1) develop a metric that quantitatively measures the risk that utilization management (UM) policies pose to patients and (2) measure the relationship between this metric and payers' real-world UM use.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>We conducted a targeted literature review and an expert elicitation exercise to create the Data-Based Utilization Management Risk Designation (BURDEN) score. Real-world data analysis measured the relationship between BURDEN and actual payer policies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The BURDEN score was based on 9 UM factors impacting patient outcomes. Factors were weighted based on an expert elicitation procedure with 6 stakeholders. UM policy restrictions were drawn from Tufts Medical Center's Specialty Drug Evidence and Coverage database, and net price data came from SSR Health. Ordinary least square regressions were performed to examine the relationship between the BURDEN score and coverage policies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 98 treatments identified across 30 unique diseases, UM policies on treatments for myasthenia gravis, multiple myeloma, and lupus nephritis posed the highest risk to patients, according to the BURDEN score. When treatments had a high BURDEN score, payers were 22.0% less likely to impose any UM restriction (P = .041) and 36.2% less likely to impose step edits (P = .039).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study developed a quantitative measure (BURDEN) to estimate the relative risk to patients of payer UM policies. Payers appeared modestly sensitive to treatments that posed a high risk to patients should UM be implemented. However, coverage decisions did not appear to be fully patient-centered, as some higher BURDEN products experienced increased UM usage.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 6","pages":"288-294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Outcomes for hospitals participating in more- and less-mature ACOs. 参与成熟ACOs和不成熟ACOs的医院的结果。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89756
Askar Chukmaitov, David W Harless, David B Muhlestein
{"title":"Outcomes for hospitals participating in more- and less-mature ACOs.","authors":"Askar Chukmaitov, David W Harless, David B Muhlestein","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89756","DOIUrl":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89756","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examines the impact of accountable care organization (ACO) maturity on inpatient costs, quality of care, and patient safety for hospitals participating in ACOs initiated by CMS relative to nonparticipants.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Quasi-experimental evaluation of hospitals before and after joining a CMS ACO using a difference-in-differences design during the period from 2010 to 2013.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Propensity score-matched groups of hospitals were used to estimate the combined effects of ACO maturity and CMS ACO participation on inpatient costs, quality, and patient safety outcomes. Total treatment costs, mortality rates for 4 common conditions, and 4 perioperative adverse events were investigated. Analyses were based on state-level data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We matched 121 CMS ACO-participating hospitals and 853 nonparticipating hospitals. Hospitals with an ACO maturity score of 0 had significantly worse acute myocardial infarction mortality and perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rates than nonparticipants. These differences were no longer significant with increasing ACO maturity. Higher ACO maturity was associated with significant improvements in accidental punctures and lacerations among hospital CMS ACO participants. No other significant trends were observed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings suggest a potential positive effect of hospital CMS ACO participation with increasing maturity. However, use of early ACO data, a short follow-up period, and other limitations hindered the ability to identify significant trends. Nonetheless, ACO maturity scores and new outcome measures may offer a promising approach for tracking the long-term impact of hospital ACO participation in future research and policy evaluations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 Spec. No. 6","pages":"SP322-SP336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144486842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pharmacist-driven SMART formulary improves pharmacoequity. 药剂师驱动的SMART处方改善了药物公平。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89738
Erin Van Meter, Caitlin Dowd-Green, Shay Roth, Robert Green, Amanda Bertram, Rosalyn Stewart
{"title":"Pharmacist-driven SMART formulary improves pharmacoequity.","authors":"Erin Van Meter, Caitlin Dowd-Green, Shay Roth, Robert Green, Amanda Bertram, Rosalyn Stewart","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89738","DOIUrl":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>A large academic medical center piloted a pharmacist-driven charitable medication access program. The financial and health outcomes of the program were evaluated and compared with existing benchmarks.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>This retrospective cohort study analyzed electronic health records for study participants and pharmacy dispensing information. The study period was January 1, 2023, through August 31, 2024.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A pre-post analysis was performed to determine the impacts of the program. First, characterizations of the number, type, and cost of medications provided to charitable care patients via the Streamlined Medication Access for High-Risk Patients (SMART) formulary were compared with existing benchmarks. Second, emergency department (ED) and hospital utilization data were reviewed for charitable care patients after implementation of the SMART formulary and compared with utilization prior to implementation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From January 1, 2023, through August 31, 2024, the SMART formulary provided 6791 medications to 418 unique patients, totaling more than 4.5 times more prescriptions to nearly 3 times more unique patients than the benchmark charitable care spending (March 1, 2019, to June 30, 2021). Drug costs per patient and costs per prescription were reduced by 62% and 72%, respectively. Reductions in ED visits (10%) and hospitalizations (34%) occurred, reducing the total health care spend by $6163 per month. The SMART formulary team facilitated the completion of 74 patient assistance program applications and connected patients to manufacturer insulin savings programs, estimating an additional indirect cost savings of $310,168.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The SMART formulary reduced the total cost of care for a cohort of charitable care patients enrolled in a primary care clinic at a large urban academic medical center in Baltimore, Maryland.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 6","pages":"e167-e172"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Scaling early palliative care in value-based community oncology: a technology-enabled approach. 在基于价值的社区肿瘤学中扩大早期姑息治疗:一种技术支持的方法。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89762
Biqi Zhang, Samyukta Mullangi, Alphan Kirayoglu, Stephen G Divers, Julia L Frydman
{"title":"Scaling early palliative care in value-based community oncology: a technology-enabled approach.","authors":"Biqi Zhang, Samyukta Mullangi, Alphan Kirayoglu, Stephen G Divers, Julia L Frydman","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 Spec. No. 7","pages":"SP394-SP396"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144486846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Challenges faced by Medicaid managed care coordinators working with members with substance use disorder. 医疗补助管理护理协调员与物质使用障碍成员合作所面临的挑战。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89752
Sarah J Marks, Valentina Vega, David Zhu, Hannah Shadowen, Ashley Harrell, Jason Lowe, Andrew Mitchell, Andrew J Barnes, Peter J Cunningham
{"title":"Challenges faced by Medicaid managed care coordinators working with members with substance use disorder.","authors":"Sarah J Marks, Valentina Vega, David Zhu, Hannah Shadowen, Ashley Harrell, Jason Lowe, Andrew Mitchell, Andrew J Barnes, Peter J Cunningham","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89752","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) care coordinators play a crucial role in assisting high-need Medicaid members with substance use disorder (SUD) and facilitating their connections with medical and social services. This study assessed challenges faced by care coordinators serving patients with SUD, including the types and frequencies of barriers, associated care coordinator and patient factors, and their relationship with burnout and job satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Web-based survey data from 322 Virginia Medicaid MCO care coordinators.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Coordinators rated 15 barriers related to providing services to patients with SUD. Principal components analysis (PCA) identified 3 subscales categorizing these challenges (challenges accessing resources, administrative and regulatory burden, and data integration). Multivariable linear regression explored associations between coordinator and patient factors and subscales for categories of barriers. Pearson correlations were used to examine the relationship between these barriers and job satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Coordinators reported a high frequency of challenges in many care coordinating activities: Between 49% and 82% reported each barrier as \"somewhat\" of a problem or a \"major\" problem. Using PCA, 3 main categories of barriers were identified. Having a high proportion of patients with SUD was associated with greater difficulties in accessing resources (P < .01) and data integration issues (P < .05), and working for specific MCOs was associated with all 3 categories of barriers (P < .05). Job satisfaction and burnout were correlated with all 3 categories as well and were most strongly associated with administrative and regulatory burden.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Care coordinators face multiple challenges serving Medicaid members, particularly those with SUD. State-level Medicaid policies supporting care coordinators may help.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 6","pages":"e159-e166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Gaps in the coordination of care for older adults with or at risk for cardiovascular disease. 对患有或有患心血管疾病风险的老年人的护理协调存在差距。
IF 2.5 4区 医学
American Journal of Managed Care Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2025.89746
Lisa M Kern, Joselyne E Aucapina, Samprit Banerjee, Joanna B Ringel, Jonathan N Tobin, Semhar Fisseha, Helena Meiri, Madeline R Sterling, Kurt C Stange, Monika M Safford, Paul N Casale
{"title":"Gaps in the coordination of care for older adults with or at risk for cardiovascular disease.","authors":"Lisa M Kern, Joselyne E Aucapina, Samprit Banerjee, Joanna B Ringel, Jonathan N Tobin, Semhar Fisseha, Helena Meiri, Madeline R Sterling, Kurt C Stange, Monika M Safford, Paul N Casale","doi":"10.37765/ajmc.2025.89746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We sought to determine whether patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) or CVD risk factors and fragmented care (ie, care spread across multiple providers) perceive any gaps in communication among their providers and whether any gaps are perceived as clinically significant (ie, leading to adverse events).</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older with CVD or at least 1 CVD risk factor and highly fragmented ambulatory care (reversed Bice-Boxerman Index score ≥ 0.85) who had been attributed to an accountable care organization in New York, New York.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a previously tested survey instrument, we asked about perceptions of communication among the respondents' providers, any adverse events (drug-drug interactions, duplicate tests, emergency department visits, or hospitalizations), and whether those events were preventable with better communication. We used descriptive statistics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 201 eligible individuals, 96 completed surveys (47.8% response rate). Of those, 94 (97.9%) reported having at least 2 ambulatory visits and at least 2 ambulatory providers in the past year and were included in our analytic sample. The mean (SD) age was 76 (6.8) years; approximately two-thirds (69%) were women. Approximately half of respondents (48%) reported a problem with, or \"gap\" in, communication among their providers. One in 14 respondents (7%) reported experiencing an adverse event that they thought could have been prevented with better communication.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Gaps in communication for patients with CVD or CVD risk factors are common and hazardous. Interventions are needed to leverage patients' observations to address gaps in communication before they cause harm.</p>","PeriodicalId":50808,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Managed Care","volume":"31 6","pages":"268-273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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