The American journal of managed care
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To understand primary care visits and medication utilization among older patients with hypertension to gauge opportunity for service redesign. ⋯ Our analysis suggests that a significant portion of care-consultation-only visits-may be relatively low value. Further, much of medication management may not require an office-based visit. Finally, utilization behavior of patients with hypertension and predictive models are likely to allow informed provisioning of new service models to specific population segments.
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Safety-net providers can benefit from demonstrations of condition-specific and defined-scope-of-practice alternative payment models that account for the nonfinancial as well as financial risks that providers face.