David C. Miller, MD, MPH

The Michigan Value Collaborative has created a claims-based algorithm that categorizes claims into episode components. This manuscript describes the validation of this algorithm.

Healthcare integration was associated with small declines in treatment, but no change in overtreatment of prostate cancer. Integrated care delivery alone may be insufficient to curtail overtreatment.

The characteristics of patients who visit practices that are ready versus unready for the patient-centered medical home differ in important ways.