Home Research Research Library Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) 2011 Author(s) Petterson, Stephen M, Bazemore, Andrew W, Phillips, Robert L, Xierali, Imam M, Rinaldo, Jason C, Green, Larry A, and Puffer, James C Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, JABFM Policy Brief, Measurement, and Payment Volume 24(6):637-638 Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Family physicians’ scope of work is exceptionally broad, particularly with increasing rurality. Provisions for Medicare bonus payment specified in the health care reform bill (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) used a narrow definition of primary care that inadvertently offers family physicians disincentives to delivering comprehensive primary care. ABFM Research Read all 2022 Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings Go to Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings 2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2022 Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure Go to Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure 2024 US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 Go to US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040
Author(s) Petterson, Stephen M, Bazemore, Andrew W, Phillips, Robert L, Xierali, Imam M, Rinaldo, Jason C, Green, Larry A, and Puffer, James C Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, JABFM Policy Brief, Measurement, and Payment Volume 24(6):637-638 Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2022 Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings Go to Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings 2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2022 Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure Go to Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure 2024 US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 Go to US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040
2022 Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings Go to Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings
2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations
2022 Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure Go to Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure
2024 US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040 Go to US Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040
