Christine Vogeli, PhD
Articles
Tacking Upwind: Reducing Spending Among High-risk Commercially Insured Patients
Although commercial accountable care organization populations are healthy on average, some individuals might benefit from programs for high-risk patients to mitigate high levels of health care utilization.
Population Turnover and Leakage in Commercial ACOs
Payment models that align financial incentives of payers, providers, and patients can mitigate spending growth in thoughtful ways, but the details of the models matter.
Intensive Care Management of a Complex Medicaid Population: A Randomized Evaluation
The authors present findings of a randomized evaluation of Medicaid patients at an academic medical center, which found that intensive care management was associated with reduced total medical expense.
Improving Care Coordination and Reducing ED Utilization Through Patient Navigation
A navigation program demonstrated decreased odds of repeat emergency department (ED) visits in patients with low baseline ED utilization and increased odds of follow-up primary care appointments.
Implementing a Hybrid Approach to Select Patients for Care Management: Variations Across Practices
Hybrid approaches allow for clinician input into case finding for care management, but training and monitoring is required to protect against unintentional biases.
Clinician Considerations When Selecting High-Risk Patients for Care Management
Clinicians consider a number of patient predisposing and enabling characteristics not typically available in clinical data systems when selecting high-risk patients for care management.
Assessing Outcomes in Child Psychiatry
Two standardized rating scales appeared to be valid and reliable for use at admission and possibly follow-up in a child psychiatry system of care.
