Association of Clinician Minority Patient Caseload With Performance in the 2019 Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System

Kenton J Johnston; David J Meyers; Gmerice Hammond; Karen E Joynt Maddox

doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0031

Association of Clinician Minority Patient Caseload With Performance in the 2019 Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System

JAMA. 2021 Mar 23;325(12):1221-1223. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.0031.

Authors

Kenton J Johnston¹, David J Meyers², Gmerice Hammond³, Karen E Joynt Maddox^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Management and Policy, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri.
² Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
³ Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri.
⁴ Associate Editor, JAMA.

Abstract

This study assesses the association between US clinicians’ caseload of minority patients and their 2019 Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System performance score.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Humans
Medicare*
Minority Groups* / statistics & numerical data
Reimbursement, Incentive*
United States
Workload

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding