RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Practice Rurality of Family Physicians Enrolled in a Practice Transformation Network
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 952
OP 956
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2018.06.170332
VO 31
IS 6
A1 Robert L. Phillips, Jr.
A1 Elizabeth M. Bishop
A1 Lars E. Peterson
A1 Mingliang Dai
YR 2018
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/31/6/952.abstract
AB The Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative prioritized the delivery of free practice transformation assistance by Practice Transformation Networks (PTNs) to small and rural practices that may otherwise lack the resources needed to succeed in Medicare's value-based payment (VBP) programs. We assessed the enrollment of rural practices in PTNs using 2016 TCPI enrollment data and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination registration data from 2013 to 2016. PTNs enrolled a higher proportion of rural family medicine practices than are represented across the general workforce (P < .0001). We await more comprehensive data releases to fully understand enrollment to this important initiative.