Reliance on Veterans Affairs outpatient care by Medicare-eligible veterans.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE:To examine longitudinal changes in Medicare-eligible veterans' reliance on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system for primary and specialty care over 4 years. METHODS:We merged VA administrative and Medicare claims data to examine outpatient use during fiscal years (FY) 2001 to 2004 by 15,520 Medicare-eligible veterans who used VA primary care in FY2000. Reliance on VA outpatient care was defined as the proportion of total (VA/Medicare) visits received in VA for primary or specialty care. RESULTS:Of 869,000 primary and specialty care visits in the study period, 39% occurred within VA and 77% were specialty care. Reliance on VA primary care was substantially higher than specialty care (66% vs. 50% in FY2001; P<0.001). Reliance on VA primary and specialty care decreased over time (57% vs. 31% in FY2004; P<0.001). Significant shifts occurred at both extremes of VA reliance. From FY2001 to FY2004, the proportion of patients in the top decile of reliance on VA primary care decreased from 39% to 31%, whereas the proportion in the bottom decile doubled from 8% to 18%. Similarly, the proportion of patients in the top decile of reliance on VA specialty care decreased from 24% to 13%, whereas the proportion in the bottom decile doubled from 22% to 47%. CONCLUSIONS:Reliance on VA primary and specialty care among VA primary care patients decreased substantially over time, particularly for specialty care. Increasing use of non-VA services may complicate VA's implementation of patient-centered medical home models and performance measurement.

journal_name

Med Care

journal_title

Medical care

authors

Liu CF,Manning WG,Burgess JF Jr,Hebert PL,Bryson CL,Fortney J,Perkins M,Sharp ND,Maciejewski ML

doi

10.1097/MLR.0b013e31822396c5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-10-01 00:00:00

pages

911-7

issue

10

eissn

0025-7079

issn

1537-1948

journal_volume

49

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