Primary Care Spending in the Fee-for-Service Medicare Population

Rachel Reid; Cheryl Damberg; Mark W Friedberg

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8747

Primary Care Spending in the Fee-for-Service Medicare Population

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Jul 1;179(7):977-980. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8747.

Authors

Rachel Reid^{1

2

3}, Cheryl Damberg⁴, Mark W Friedberg^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ RAND Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.

Abstract

This study assesses primary care spending as a proportion of total spending among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries by using narrow and broad definitions of primary care practitioners and services.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Fee-for-Service Plans
Female
Humans
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Primary Health Care / economics*
United States

Grants and funding

U19 HS024067/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States