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

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

Rachel Reid  1   2   3 , Cheryl Damberg  4 , Mark W Friedberg  1   2   3
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Primary Care Spending in the Fee-for-Service Medicare Population

Rachel Reid et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

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.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Reid reported receiving grants from the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, and the National Institute for Health Care Management during the conduct of the study; receiving research contracts from the American Academy of Physician Assistants, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Leonard D. Schaeffer RAND-University of Southern California Initiative in Health Policy and Economics outside the submitted work. Dr Damberg reported receiving grants from the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality during the conduct of the study. Dr Friedberg reported receiving grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and The Commonwealth Fund during the conduct of the study; and reported receiving research contracts from the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the American Medical Association, the American Board of Medical Specialties, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute outside the submitted work.

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Figure.. Primary Care Spending as a Proportion of Total Medical and Prescription Spending Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Beneficiaries
Definitions of primary care practitioner (PCP) and primary care services are given in the Methods section.
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