Study Findings on Managed Care Are Outlined in Reports from HealthPartners Institute (Diabetes Care Quality: Do Large Medical Groups Perform Better?): Managed Care

2022 APR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news originating from Minneapolis, Minnesota, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To compare primary care management processes (CMPs) and outcome measures for diabetes quality among large, medium, and small medical groups. Observational comparison of differences in processes and outcomes over time among 329 primary care practices that agreed to participate and returned completed surveys in both 2017 and 2019.”

Financial support for this research came from NIH National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from HealthPartners Institute, “We used a standardized composite measure of diabetes quality along with its 5 components and a survey measure of the presence of systematic CMPs to compare the outcomes and processes of care among clinics that were in large (>= 12 sites), medium (4-11 sites), and small (1-3 sites) medical groups. Practices from large groups had better performance than those in medium and small groups on the composite measure of diabetes outcomes in 2017 (46.5 vs 40.6 and 34.4, respectively; P< .001), as well as on each of the 5 component measures. They also had more CMPs in place (74.2% vs 66.9% and 61.4%; P< .001), including the 10 CMPs that are associated with the highest level of performance (84.2% vs 77.9% and 72.2%; P< .001). However, repeated measures in 2019 showed that the smaller groups had gained on both quality and CMP measures. There was also substantial overlap on both CMPs and performance among practices in groups of different sizes.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “On average, primary care practices that are part of large well-established medical groups outperformed smaller-sized groups in diabetes care quality, probably because they have the resources, leadership, and infrastructure to provide more consistent care through more organized CMPs.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Diabetes Care Quality: Do Large Medical Groups Perform Better? The American Journal of Managed Care, 2022;28(3):101-107. The American Journal of Managed Care can be contacted at: Managed Care & Healthcare Communications Llc, 666 Plainsboro Rd, Ste 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Leif Solberg, HealthPartners Institute, Pob 1524, Mail Stop 21112R, Minneapolis, MN 55440, United States. Additional authors for this research include Caroline S. Carlin, Kevin A. Peterson and Milton Eder.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2022.88836. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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