Primary Care Physicians and Spending on Low-Value Care

Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jun;174(6):875-878. doi: 10.7326/M20-6257. Epub 2021 Jan 19.

Authors

Aaron Baum¹, Andrew Bazemore², Lars Peterson², Sanjay Basu³, Keith Humphreys⁴, Robert L Phillips⁵

Affiliations

¹ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
² American Board of Family Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.
³ Collective Health, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Center for Innovation to Implementation, Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, California.
⁵ Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, Washington, DC.

PMID: 33460344
DOI: 10.7326/M20-6257

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Health Expenditures*
Humans
Medicare / economics*
Physicians, Primary Care*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / economics*
Referral and Consultation
Retrospective Studies
United States
Unnecessary Procedures / economics*