J William Thomas
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Thomas J, Adams J, Mehrotra A, McGlynn E
Rand Health Q
. 2017 Jan;
2(1):3.
PMID: 28083225
This article describes the methods and sensitivity analyses used by the authors in an article published in the . Purchasers are experimenting with a variety of approaches to control health...
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Thomas J, Ziller E, Thayer D
Health Aff (Millwood)
. 2010 Sep;
29(9):1578-84.
PMID: 20820011
In this paper we present the costs of defensive medicine in thirty-five clinical specialties to determine whether malpractice liability reforms would greatly reduce health care costs. Defensive medicine includes tests...
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Mehrotra A, Adams J, Thomas J, McGlynn E
Health Aff (Millwood)
. 2010 Aug;
29(8):1532-8.
PMID: 20679658
In an effort to rein in rising health care costs, health plans are using physician cost profiles as the basis for tiered networks that give patients incentives to visit low-cost...
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Mehrotra A, Adams J, Thomas J, McGlynn E
Ann Intern Med
. 2010 May;
152(10):649-54.
PMID: 20479030
Background: Some health plans profile physicians on the basis of their relative costs and use these profiles to assign physicians to cost categories. Physician organizations have questioned whether the rules...
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Adams J, Mehrotra A, Thomas J, McGlynn E
N Engl J Med
. 2010 Mar;
362(11):1014-21.
PMID: 20237347
Background: Insurance products with incentives for patients to choose physicians classified as offering lower-cost care on the basis of cost-profiling tools are increasingly common. However, no rigorous evaluation has been...
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Adams J, McGlynn E, Thomas J, Mehrotra A
BMC Health Serv Res
. 2010 Mar;
10:57.
PMID: 20205736
Background: Physician cost profiles (also called efficiency or economic profiles) compare the costs of care provided by a physician to his or her peers. These profiles are increasingly being used...
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Thomas J, Nalli G, Coburn A
J Health Care Finance
. 2009 Jan;
33(4):53-67.
PMID: 19172962
In response to continuing concerns about escalating health care costs and poor quality care, many health plans have adopted a strategy called "tiered provider networks." With TPNs, plans provide financial...
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Sandy L, Rattray M, Thomas J
J Gen Intern Med
. 2008 Jun;
23(9):1521-4.
PMID: 18546048
Most current strategies to improve quality and efficiency in health-care delivery focus on measuring and improving physician practice. A new "second generation" of physician profiling--episode-based profiling--is moving beyond legacy "first-generation"...
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Thomas J, Ward K
Inquiry
. 2006 Dec;
43(3):271-82.
PMID: 17176969
This paper examines the influence of episode attribution methodology and cost outlier methodology on the accuracy of physicians' economic profiles. Four years of claims data from a mixed model HMO...
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Thomas J
Am J Manag Care
. 2006 Jun;
12(6):341-51.
PMID: 16756453
Objective: To investigate the degree to which the absence of prescriber identifying information and the absence of pharmacy claims might affect the validity of physicians' economic profiles. Study Design: The...