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Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether medical homes have heterogeneous effects in different subpopulations, leveraging the interpretations from a variety of statistical techniques.

Data sources/study setting

Secondary claims data from the NC Medicaid program for 2004-2007. The sample included all adults with diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression who were not dually enrolled in Medicare or in a nursing facility.

Study design

We modeled a number of monthly service use, adherence, and expenditure outcomes using fixed effects, generalized estimating equation with and without inverse probability of treatment weights, and instrumental variables analyses.

Data collection

Data were received from the Carolina Cost and Quality Initiative.

Principal findings

The four estimation techniques consistently revealed generally positive associations between medical homes and access to primary care, specialty mental health care, greater medication adherence, slightly lower emergency room use, and greater expenditures. These findings were consistent across all three major severe mental illness diagnostic groups. Some heterogeneity in effects were noted, especially in preventive screening.

Conclusions

Expanding access to primary care-based medical homes for people with severe mental illness may not save money for insurance providers, due to greater access for important outpatient services with little cost offset. Health services research examining more of the treatment heterogeneity may contribute to more realistic projections about medical homes outcomes.

SUBMITTER: Domino ME

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5583299 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness.

Domino Marisa Elena ME Kilany Mona M Wells Rebecca R Morrissey Joseph P JP

Health services research 20161021 5

<h4>Objective</h4>To examine whether medical homes have heterogeneous effects in different subpopulations, leveraging the interpretations from a variety of statistical techniques.<h4>Data sources/study setting</h4>Secondary claims data from the NC Medicaid program for 2004-2007. The sample included all adults with diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression who were not dually enrolled in Medicare or in a nursing facility.<h4>Study design</h4>We modeled a number of monthly ...[more]

PMID: 27766621

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Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness.

Objective

Data sources/study setting

Study design

Data collection

Principal findings

Conclusions

Publications

Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness.

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