The Influence of Gatekeeping and Utilization Review on Patient Satisfaction
ResearchPosted on rand.org 1999Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine, v. 14, no. 5, May 1999, p. 287-296
OBJECTIVE: To examine the influence of utilization review and denial of specialty referrals on patient satisfaction with overall medical care, willingness to recommend one's physician group to a friend, and desire to disenroll from the health plan. DESIGN: Two cross-sectional questionnaires: one of physician groups and one of patient satisfaction. SETTING: Eighty-eight capitated physician groups in California. PARTICIPANTS: Participants were 11,710 patients enrolled in a large California network-model HMO in 1993 who received care in one of the 88 physician groups. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The main measures were how groups conducted utilization review for specialty referrals and tests, patient-reported denial of specialty referrals, and patient satisfaction with overall medical care. Patients in groups that required preauthorization for access to many types of specialists were significantly (p
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- Copyright: Blackwell Publishing
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 1999
- Pages: 10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: EP-199905-07
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