In this paper, we examine medical cost and mortality outcomes for enrollees in the HBPC program offered by Spectrum Health/Priority Health (SH/PH), a not-for-profit integrated health care/health insurance system located in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. We perform a concurrent matched cohort study. ...
When employers assess the deliveryof healthcare, they see chaos. As an example, a prominentemployerin the Midwest finds that their employees in Flint, Michigan are 70% more likely to undergocardiac revascularization than their employees in Grand Rapids, despite similarinsurancecoverage. The authors ...