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2022

  1. Chen G, Lewis VA, Gottlieb DJ, O'Malley AJ. Using a mixed‐effect model with a parameter‐space of heterogenous dimension to evaluate whether accountable care organizations are associated with greater uniformity across constituent practices. Statistics in Medicine. 2022 Sep 20.
  2. Miller-Rosales C, Lewis VA, Shortell SM, Rodriguez HP. Adoption of Patient Engagement Strategies by Physician Practices in the United States. Medical Care.:10-97.*
  3. Ross RL, Rubio K, Rodriguez HP. Mammography and Decision Aid Use for Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022 Jun 16.*
  4. Fraze TK, Beidler LB, De Marchis EH, Gottlieb LM, Potter MB. “Beyond Just a Supplement”: Administrators' Visions for the Future of Virtual Primary Care Services. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2022 May 1;35(3):527-36.
  5. Rodriguez HP, Kyalwazi MJ, Lewis VA, Rubio K, Shortell SM. Adoption of Patient-Reported Outcomes by Health Systems and Physician Practices in the USA. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Apr 28.*
  6. Newton H, Busch SH, Brunette MF, Maust DT, O’Malley AJ, Meara E. Innovations in Care Delivery for Patients With Serious Mental Illness Among Accountable Care Organizations. Psychiatric Services. 2022 Apr 5:appi-ps.
  7. Beidler LB, Razon N, Lang H, Fraze TK. "More than just giving them a piece of paper": Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Apr 14
  8. Doherty JR, Schaefer A, Goodman DC. Texas Hospital's Perspectives About NICU Performance Measures: A Mixed-Methods Study. Qual Manag Health Care. 2022 Apr 4;. doi: 10.1097
  9. Fraze TK, Lewis VA, Wood A, Newton H, Colla CH. Configuration and Delivery of Primary Care in Rural and Urban Settings. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2022 Mar 9:1-9.*
  10. Rodriguez HP, Ciemins EL, Rubio K, Shortell SM. Physician Practices With Robust Capabilities Spend Less On Medicare Beneficiaries Than More Limited Practices: Study examines spending on Medicare beneficiaries, comparing physician practices with robust capabilities versus practices with limited capabilities. Health Affairs. 2022 Mar 1;41(3):414-23.*
  11. Behr CL, Maddox KE, Meara E, Epstein AM, Orav EJ, Barnett ML. Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibody Distribution to High-risk Medicare Beneficiaries, 2020-2021. JAMA. 2022 Mar 8;327(10):980-3.
  12. Woloshin S, Dewitt B, Krishnamurti T, Fischhoff B. Assessing How Consumers Interpret and Act on Results From At-Home COVID-19 Self-test Kits: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2022 Mar 1;182(3):332-41.
  13. Fraze TK, Beidler LB, Gottlieb LM. A Missed Opportunity? How Health Care Organizations Engage Primary Care Clinicians in Formal Social Care Efforts. Popul Health Manag. 2022 Feb 21. doi: 10.1089/pop.2021.0306. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35196116.
  14. Cross DA, Stevens MA, Spivack SB, Murray GF, Rodriguez HP, Lewis VA. Survey of Information Exchange and Advanced Use of Other Health Information Technology in Primary Care Settings: Capabilities In and Outside of the Safety Net. Medical care. 2022 Feb 1;60(2):140-8.*
  15. Chien AT, Leyenaar J, Tomaino M, Woloshin S, Leininger L, Barnett ER, McLaren JL, Meara E. Difficulty Obtaining Behavioral Health Services for Children: A National Survey of Multiphysician Practices. The Annals of Family Medicine. 2022 Jan 1;20(1):42-50.*
  16. Frehn JL, Brewster AL, Shortell SM, Rodriguez HP. Comparing health care system and physician practice influences on social risk screening. Health Care Manage Rev. 2022 Jan-Mar 01;47(1):E1-E10.*
  17. Tierney AA, Shortell SM, Rundall TG, Blodgett JC, Reponen E. Examining the Relationship Between the Lean Management System and Quality Improvement Care Management Processes. Qual Manag Health Care. January/March 2022;31(1):1-6.*

2021

  1. Fraze TK, Beidler LB, Savitz LA. "It's Not Just the Right Thing . . . It's a Survival Tactic": Disentangling Leaders' Motivations and Worries on Social Care. Med Care Res Rev. 2021 Dec 14:10775587211057673.
  2. Fraze TK, Beidler LB, Fichtenberg C, Brewster AL, Gottlieb LM. Resource-Brokering: Efforts to Assist Patients With Housing, Transportation and Economic Needs in Primary Care Settings. Ann Fam Med. Nov-Dec 2021;19(6):507-514.
  3. Brown TT, Hurley VB, Rodriguez HP. Association of patient engagement strategies with utilisation and spending for musculoskeletal problems in the USA: a cross-sectional analysis of Medicare patients and physician practices. BMJ Open. 2021 Nov 26;11(11):e053121.*
  4. Lewis VA, Spivack S, Murray GF, Rodriguez HP. FQHC Designation and Safety Net Patient Revenue Associated with Primary Care Practice Capabilities for Access and Quality. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Oct;36(10):2922-2928.*
  5. Ganguli I, Morden NE, Yang CW, Crawford M, Colla CH. Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2021 Sep 27.
  6. Morden NE, Chyn D, Wood A, Meara E. Racial Inequality in Prescription Opioid Receipt—Role of Individual Health Systems. New England Journal of Medicine. 2021 Jul 22;385(4):342-51.
  7. Spivack SB, DeWalt D, Oberlander J, Trogdon J, Shah N, Meara E, Weinberger M, Reiter K, Agravat D, Colla C, Lewis V. The Association of Readmission Reduction Activities with Primary Care Practice Readmission Rates. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2021 Jul 13:1-8.*
  8. Chelen JS, White DB, Zaza S, Perry AN, Feifer DS, Crawford ML, Barnato AE. US Ventilator Allocation and Patient Triage Policies in Anticipation of the COVID-19 Surge. Health security. 2021 Jun 9.
  9. Bui LN, Marshall C, Miller-Rosales C, Rodriguez HP. Hospital Adoption of Electronic Decision Support Tools for Preeclampsia Management. Quality Management in Healthcare. 2021 May 27.*
  10. Chen G, Lewis VA, Gottlieb D, O’Malley AJ. Estimating heterogeneous effects of a policy intervention across organizations when organization affiliation is missing for the control group: application to the evaluation of accountable care organizations. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. 2021 Mar;21(1):54-68.
  11. King AC, Morden NE. A proposed taxonomy for population-level prescription use patterns. Journal of Prescribing Practice. 2021 Jan 2;3(1):22-7.
  12. Shortell SM, Gottlieb DJ, Martinez Camblor P, O’Malley AJ. Hospital‐based health systems 20 years later: A taxonomy for policy research and analysis. Health Services Research.*
  13. Spivack SB, Murray GF, Rodriguez HP, Lewis VA. Avoiding Medicaid: Characteristics Of Primary Care Practices With No Medicaid Revenue: Study examines primary care practices with no Medicaid revenue. Health Affairs. 2021 Jan 1;40(1):98-104.*
  14. Ouayogodé MH, Meara E, Ho K, Snyder CM, Colla CH. Estimates of ACO savings in the presence of provider and beneficiary selection. InHealthcare (Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 100460). Elsevier.

2020

  1. Colla C, Yang W, Mainor AJ, Meara E, Ouayogode MH, Lewis VA, Shortell S, Fisher E. Organizational integration, practice capabilities, and outcomes in clinically complex medicare beneficiaries. Health Services Research. 2020 Oct 26.*
  2. Brewster AL, Fraze TK, Gottlieb LM, Frehn J, Murray GF, Lewis VA. The Role of Value‐Based Payment in Promoting Innovation to Address Social Risks: A Cross‐Sectional Study of Social Risk Screening by US Physicians. The Milbank Quarterly. 2020 Oct 20.*
  3. Fraze, TK, Beidler, LB, Briggs, ADM, Colla CH. Translating Evidence into Practice: ACOs’ Use of Care Plans for Patients with Complex Health Needs. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Oct 1.
  4. Fraze TK, Briggs AD, Whitcomb EK, Peck KA, Meara E. Role of nurse practitioners in caring for patients with complex health needs. Medical Care. 2020 Oct 1;58(10):853-60.
  5. Fisher ES, Shortell SM, O'Malley AJ, Fraze TK, Wood A, Palm M, Colla CH, Rosenthal MB, Rodriguez HP, Lewis VA, Woloshin S, Shah N, Meara E. Financial Integration's Impact on Care Delivery and Payment Reforms: A Survey of Hospitals and Physician Practices. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Aug;39(8):1302-1311*
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  6. O’Malley, A.J., Park, S. A novel cluster sampling design that couples multiple surveys to support multiple inferential objectives. Health Serv Outcomes Res Method. 2020 June*
  7. Ouayogodé MH, Fraze T, Rich EC, Colla CH. Association of Organizational Factors and Physician Practices' Participation in Alternative Payment Models. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Apr 1;3(4):e202019*
  8. King AC, Schwartz LM, Woloshin S. A National Survey of the Frequency of Drug Company Detailing Visits and Free Sample Closets in Practices Delivering Primary Care. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Jan 27;180(4):592-595*
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  9. Kandel ZK, Rittenhouse DR, Bibi S, Fraze TK, Shortell SM, Rodríguez HP. The CMS State Innovation Models Initiative and Improved Health Information Technology and Care Management Capabilities of Physician Practices. Medical Care Research and Review. 2020 Jan 22:1077558719901217*
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  10. Hurley VB, Wang Y, Rodriguez HP, Shortell SM, Kearing S, Savitz LA. Decision Aid Implementation and Patients’ Preferences for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Treatment: Insights from the High Value Healthcare Collaborative. Patient Preference and Adherence. 2020;14:23-32.
  11. Hurley VB, Rodriguez HP, Kearing S, Wang Y, Leung MD, Shortell SM. The Impact Of Decision Aids On Adults Considering Hip Or Knee Surgery: This study examines if there is an impact on surgical utilization among patients exposed to decision aids and who consult collaboratively with their clinicians. Health Affairs. 2020 Jan 1;39(1):100-7.
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2019

  1. Rosenthal M, Shortell S, Shah ND, Peiris D, Lewis VA, Barrera JA, Usadi B, Colla CH. Physician practices in Accountable Care Organizations are more likely to collect and use physician performance information, yet base only a small proportion of compensation on performance data. Health services research. 2019 Dec 1;54(6):1214-22*
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  2. Fraze TK, Brewster AL, Lewis VA, Beidler LB, Murray GF, Colla CH. Prevalence of Screening for Food Insecurity, Housing Instability, Utility Needs, Transportation Needs, and Interpersonal Violence by US Physician Practices and Hospitals. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9)*
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  3. Lewis VA, Joynt Maddox, Austin A, Gottlieb D, Bynum JP. Developing and Validating a Measure to Estimate Poverty in Medicare Administrative Data. Med Care. 2019 Aug;57(8):601-607.
  4. Briggs AD, Fraze TK, Glick AL, Beidler LB, Shortell SM, Fisher ES. How Do Accountable Care Organizations Deliver Preventive Care Services? A Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of general internal medicine. 2019 Aug 20:1-9.
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  5. Ouayogodé MH, Mainor AJ, Meara E, Bynum JP, Colla CH. Association Between Care Management and Outcomes Among Patients With Complex Needs in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations. JAMA Network Open. 2019 Jul 3;2(7):e196939.
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  6. Fraze TK, Beidler LB, Briggs AD, Colla CH. ‘Eyes In The Home’: ACOs Use Home Visits To Improve Care Management, Identify Needs, And Reduce Hospital Use. Health Affairs. 2019;38(6):1021-7.
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  7. Kim SP, Karnes RJ, Mwangi R, Van Houten H, Gross CP, Gershman B, Leapman MS, Shah ND. Contemporary Trends in Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Time of Prostate Biopsy: Results from a Large Private Insurance Database. European Urology Focus. 2019; Epub ahead of print.
  8. Norton PT, Rodriguez HP, Shortell SM, Lewis VA. Organizational Influences on Healthcare System Adoption and Use of Advanced Health Information Technology Capabilities. Am J Manag Care. 2019;25(1):e21-e25.*
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  9. Morden NE, Woloshin S, Brooks CG, Schwartz LM. Trends in Testosterone Prescribing for Age-related Hypogonadism in Men With and Without Heart Disease. JAMA Intern Med. 2019;178(3):446-448
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  10. Huber TP,  Rodriguez HP, Shortell SM. The Influence of Leadership Facilitation on Relational Coordination Among Primary Care Team Members of Accountable Care Organizations. Health Care Manage Rev. 2019; Epub ahead of print.*

2018

  1. Comfort LN, Shortell SM, Rodriguez HP, Colla CH. Medicare Accountable Care Organizations of Diverse Structures Achieve Comparable Quality and Cost Performance. Health Serv Res. 2018;53(4):2303-2323
  2. Lewis VA, D'Aunno T, Murray GF, Shortell SM, Colla CH. The Hidden Roles That Management Partners Play In Accountable Care Organizations. Health Aff (Millwood). 2018;37(2):292–298.
  3. Kennedy G, Lewis VA, Kundu S, Mousqués J, Colla CH. . Accountable Care Organizations and Post-Acute Care: A Focus on Preferred SNF Networks. Medical Care Research and Review. 2018. Epub ahead of print.
  4. Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Bagley PJ, Blunt HB, White B. Characteristics of Interim Publications of Randomized Clinical Trials and Comparison With Final Publications. JAMA. 2018;319(4):404–406.
  5. Briggs ADM, Alderwick H, Fisher ES. Overcoming Challenges to US Payment Reform: Could a Place-Based Approach Help? JAMA. 2018;319(15):1545-1546
  6. Ivey S, Shortell SM, Rodriguez H, Wang E. Patient Engagement in ACO Practices and Patient-reported Outcomes Among Adults with Co-occurring Chronic Disease and Mental Health conditions. Med Care. 2018;56(7):551-556.
  7. Mishra MK, Saunders CH, Rodriguez HP, Shortell SM, Fisher ES, Elwyn G. How Do Healthcare Professionals Working in Accountable Care Organisations Understand Patient Activation and Engagement? Qualitative Interviews Across Two Time Points. BMJ Open 2018;8(10):e023068
  8. Fraze TK, Fisher ES, Tomaino MR, Peck KA, Meara E. Comparison of Populations Served in Hospital Service Areas With and Without Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Medical Homes. JAMA Network Open. 2018;1(5):e182169.
  9. Barr PJ, Bonasia K, Verma K, Dannenberg MD, Yi C, Andrews E, Palm M, Cavanaugh KL, Masel M, Durand MA. Audio-/Video-recording Clinic Visits for Patient’s Personal Use in the United States: Cross-Sectional Survey. J Med Internet Res. 2018;20(9):e11308
  10. McDonald, K.M., Rodriguez, H.P., Shortell, S.M. (2018). Organizational Influences on Time Pressure Stressors and Potential Patient Consequences in Primary Care. Med Care. 2018;56(10):822-830.
  11. Ouayogode M, Meara E, Chang C, Raymond S, Bynum J, Lewis V, Colla C. Forgotten Patients: ACO Attribution Omits Those with Low Service Use and the Dying. Am J Manag Care. 2018;24(7):e207-215.
  12. Haverkamp MH, Peiris D, Mainor AJ, Westert GP, Rosenthal MB, Sequist TD, Colla CH. ACOs with Risk-Bearing Experience Are Likely Taking Steps to Reduce Low-Value Medical Services. Am J Manag Care. 2018; 24(7):e216-e221.
  13. Martin BI, Lurie JD, Farrokhi FR, McGuire KJ, Mirza SK. Early Effects of Medicare's Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) Program for Lumbar Fusion. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2018;43(10):705-711
  14. Ahluwalia SC, Harris BJ, Lewis VA, Colla CH. End-of-Life Care Planning in Accountable Care Organizations: Associations with Organizational Characteristics Associated with Performance. Health Serv Res. 2018;53(3):1662-1681
  15. Fraze TA, Lewis VA, Tierny E, Colla CH. Quality of Care Improves for Diabetics in Medicare Shared Savings ACOs: Organizational Characteristics Associated with Performance. Popul Health Manag. 2018;21(5):401-408
  16. Poon BY, Shortell S, Rodriguez HP. Physician Practice Transitions to System Ownership Do Not Result in Diminished Practice Responsiveness to Patients. Health Serv Res. 2018;53(4):2268-2284.

2017

  1. Colla CH, Fisher ES. Moving Forward With Accountable Care Organizations: Some Answers, More Questions. JAMA. 2017;177(4):527-528.
  2. Lewis VA, Fraze TK, Fisher ES, Shortell SM, Colla CH.ACOs Service High Proportions of Racial and Ethnic Minorities Lag in Quality Performance. Health Aff  (Millwood). 2017;36(1):57-66.
  3. Ouayogode MH, Colla CH, Lewis VA. Determinants of Success in Shared Savings Programs: An Analysis of ACO and Market Characteristics. Healthc (Amst). 2017;5(1-2):53-61.
  4. Shortell SM, Poon BY, Ramsey PP, et al. A Multilevel Analysis of Patient Engagement and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Primary Care Practices of Accountable Care Organizations. JGIM. 2017;32(6):640-647
  5. Miake-Lye IM, Chuang E, Rodriguez HP, Kominski GF, Yano EM, Shortell SM. Random or Predictable?: Adoption Patterns of Chronic Care Management Practices in Physician Organizations. Implement Sci. 2017;12(1):106.
  6. Lewis VA, Fisher ES, Colla CH. Explaining Sluggish Savings under Accountable Care. N Engl J Med. 2017;377(19):1809–1811.

2016

  1. Colla CH, Lewis VA, Bergquist SL, Shortell SM. Accountability across the Continuum: The Participation of Post-acute Care Providers in Accountable Care Organizations. Health Serv Res. 2016;51(4):1595-1611.
  2. Colla CH, Lewis VA, Kao L-S, O'Malley AJ, Chang C-H,Fisher ES. Association Between Medicare Accountable Care Organization Implementation and Spending Among Clinically Vulnerable Beneficiaries. JAMA Intern Med 2016;176(8):1167-1175.
  3. Fisher ES, Shortell SM, Savitz LA. Implementation Science: A Potential Catalyst for Delivery System Reform. JAMA. 2016;315(4):339-340.
  4. Peiris D, Phipps-Taylor MC, Stachowski CA, Kao L-S, Shortell SM, Lewis VA, Rosenthal MB, Colla CH. ACOs Holding Commercial Contracts Are Larger And More Efficient Than Noncommercial ACOs. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016;35(10):1849-1856.