Costs Up with Specialist as Predominant Provider of Care – Medical Xpress

Read article - An article about a study conducted by Julie P.W. Bynum, associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute, associate professor of medicine, and co-director of data analytic core, found that using propensity score matching involving beneficiaries aged 65 years and older with multimorbidity found that, compared to those with a primary care PPC, individuals with a specialty PPC had more hospitalizations and higher spending, although little difference was seen in mortality or preventable hospitalizations.