Smaller physician practices had fewer preventable hospital admissions among Medicare beneficiaries, according to survey results published in Health Affairs.
Researchers conducted a national survey of 1,045 primary care-based practices with 19 or fewer physicians to determine practice characteristics. They used Medicare data to calculate practices' rate of potentially preventable hospital admissions.
According to the survey, practices with one or two physicians had 33 percent fewer preventable admissions as compared to practices with 10 physicians to 19 physicians. Also, practices with three to nine physicians had 27 percent fewer preventable admissions as compared practices with more than 10 physicians.
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