Research Grants
Funding For:
Measuring Systemic Overuse in the Privately Insured
Cost & Quality / Health Care Coverage / Overuse

Recipient:
Jodi Segal, Johns Hopkins University
Grant Period:
Mar 01, 2018 - Feb 28, 2019
AMOUNT:
$53,552.00
Summary of the Project:
This study will construct and validate a composite index of systemic overuse for the privately-insured working aged population, extending prior work by this team to develop a similar index for the Medicare population. The resulting index will be used to assess temporal and geographic patterns of systemic overuse and to evaluate how Maryland's global-budget program has affected systemic overuse. The new index can advance efforts to understand overuse in a more comprehensive way and can provide a useful tool for future research on the impact of various interventions aimed at reducing low-value care.
Media Coverage
December 2020
The impact of global budget payment reform on systemic overuse in Maryland
Learn MoreAuthor: A Oakes, ASen, JB Segal
March 01, 2020
"Understanding Geographic Variation in Systemic Overuse Among the Privately Insured"
Learn MoreAuthor: A Oakes, A Sen, JB Segal, Medical Care
May 02, 2019
"Systemic overuse of health care in a commercially insured US population, 2010–2015"
Learn MoreAuthor: A Oakes, Chang HY, Segal JB, BMC Health Services Research