Changes in Outpatient Imaging Utilization and Spending Under a New Population-Based Primary Care Payment Model

To evaluate whether the implementation of a new population-based primary care payment system, Population-Based Payments for Primary Care (3PC), initiated by Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA; the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii), was associated with changes in spending and utilization for outpatient imaging in its first year.

Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - December 31, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Claire T. Dinh, Kristin A. Linn, Ulysses Isidro, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Kevin G. Volpp, Amelia M. Bond, Kristen Caldarella, Andrea B. Troxel, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Shireen E. Matloubieh, Elizabeth Drye, Susannah Bernheim, Emily Oshima Lee, Mark Mugiishi, Ki Tags: Original article Source Type: research