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| Lawrence CasalinoSummaryAffiliation: University of Chicago Country: USA Publications
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External incentives, information technology, and organized processes to improve health care quality for patients with chronic diseasesLawrence Casalino
Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, Chicago, Ill 60637, USA
JAMA 289:434-41. 2003..Research is lacking about the extent to which POs use CMPs or about the degree to which incentives, IT, or other factors are associated with their use...- Unfamiliar tasks, contested jurisdictions: the changing organization field of medical practice in the United StatesLawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Health Soc Behav 45:59-75. 2004..However, these tasks are not well understood, and health plan jurisdiction over them is not accepted by the public or by physicians... - Growth of single-specialty medical groupsLawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:82-90. 2004..We explore possible consequences of this shift in physician practice organization and its policy implications... - Benefits of and barriers to large medical group practice in the United StatesLawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:1958-64. 2003..However, information is lacking on recent trends in group size and the benefits of and barriers to group practice... - Will pay-for-performance and quality reporting affect health care disparities?Lawrence P Casalino
University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w405-14. 2007..This paper describes ways in which P4P and public reporting programs may increase disparities and suggests ways in which programs might be designed that will make them likely to reduce, or at least not increase, disparities... 
Alternative models of hospital-physician affiliation as the United States moves away from tight managed careLawrence Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Milbank Q 81:331-51, 173-4. 2003..Hospitals probably will continue to seek tighter affiliations with physicians to increase coordination, enhance negotiating leverage with health plans, and gain admissions...
Hospital-physician relations: two tracks and the decline of the voluntary medical staff modelLawrence P Casalino
University of Chicago, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1305-14. 2008..The interviews also suggest other factors motivating physician employment by, or separation from, hospitals, and likely consequences of these trends...- Markets and medicine: barriers to creating a "business case for quality"Lawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Perspect Biol Med 46:38-51; discussion 52-4. 2003.... - The cost consequences of improving diabetes care: the community health center experienceElbert S Huang
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:138-46. 2008..The financial impact of the Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDC), a national QI program conducted in community health centers (HCs), was examined... - General internists' views on pay-for-performance and public reporting of quality scores: a national surveyLawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:492-9. 2007..Public and private policymakers might avoid a physician backlash and better succeed at improving health care quality if they consider these concerns when designing P4P and public reporting programs... - Physician strategies to reduce patients' out-of-pocket prescription costsG Caleb Alexander
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, MacLean Center for Medical Ethics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:633-6. 2005..Physicians often do not communicate with patients about out-of-pocket costs, although research indicates that physicians and patients value such discussion... - Sustaining quality improvement in community health centers: perceptions of leaders and staffMarshall H Chin
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 31:319-29. 2008..1), data entry (34%), and staff time for QI (26%). Participants also needed help with patient self-management (73%), information systems (77%), and getting providers to follow guidelines (64%)... - Patient-physician communication about out-of-pocket costsG Caleb Alexander
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill 60637, USA
JAMA 290:953-8. 2003..Previous research suggests that these costs are associated with medication nonadherence and considerable economic burden among some patients. Little is known about patient-physician communication regarding these costs... - Barriers to patient-physician communication about out-of-pocket costsG Caleb Alexander
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:856-60. 2004..Though many patients and physicians believe that they should discuss out-of-pocket costs, research suggests that they infrequently do... - Disease management and the organization of physician practiceLawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill 60637, USA
JAMA 293:485-8. 2005 - Pay for performance, public reporting, and racial disparities in health care: how are programs being designed?Alyna T Chien
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:283S-304S. 2007..The article concludes with program leaders' recommendations on how performance incentive programs could be designed to reduce disparities... - Focused factories? Physician-owned specialty facilitiesLawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:56-67. 2003..But regulatory intervention should be cautious, because data on impact are inconclusive, and these facilities could have the potential to function as "focused factories" that improve quality and reduce costs... - The Federal Trade Commission, clinical integration, and the organization of physician practiceLawrence P Casalino
University of Chicago, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 31:569-85. 2006.... - Physicians and corporations: a corporate transformation of American medicine?Lawrence P Casalino
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 29:869-83; discussion 1005-19. 2004 - Which type of medical group provides higher-quality care?Lawrence P Casalino
Ann Intern Med 145:860-1. 2006 - An empirical assessment of high-performing medical groups: results from a national studyStephen M Shortell
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 62:407-34. 2005..The findings hold a number of important implications for policy and practice, and the framework presented provides a foundation for future research... - The alignment and blending of payment incentives within physician organizationsJames C Robinson
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, 140 Warren, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1589-606. 2004.... - The use of patient and physician reminders for preventive services: results from a National Study of Physician OrganizationsJulie Schmittdiel
Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Prev Med 39:1000-6. 2004..Little is known about the incentives, capabilities, and organizational characteristics associated with the use of reminders by physician organizations... - Changes in hospital competitive strategy: a new medical arms race?Kelly J Devers
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024 2512, USA
Health Serv Res 38:447-69. 2003..e., service, amenities, perceived quality) dimensions, and the reasons for any observed shifts... - Health care reform requires accountable care systemsStephen M Shortell
Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
JAMA 300:95-7. 2008 - Hospitals' negotiating leverage with health plans: how and why has it changed?Kelly J Devers
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024 2512, USA
Health Serv Res 38:419-46. 2003..To describe how hospitals' negotiating leverage with managed care plans changed from 1996 to 2001 and to identify factors that explain any changes...