AJMC September 8, 2025
More frequent routine primary care visits for certain higher-risk commercially insured adults are associated with lower net population-level health care costs.
ABSTRACT
Objective: To evaluate the relationship between the frequency of routine primary care visits and total health care expenditures among commercially insured adults.
Study Design: Retrospective cross-sectional statistical analysis of a nationally representative data set of health care utilization and expenditures over a 2-year period.
Methods: We used multivariate regression analysis to evaluate the association between the annualized number of visits with a primary care physician for routine care and total health care expenditures for commercially insured adults younger than 65 years, adjusting for underlying clinical complexity measured through risk scoring. Data were drawn from information collected by the...
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