Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH

Professor,
Family Community Medicine
Publications: 

Making a Business Case for Team-Based Care.

Family practice management

Kong M, Bodenheimer T, Willard-Grace R

The Association of Teamlets and Teams with Physician Burnout and Patient Outcomes.

Journal of general internal medicine

Casalino LP, Jung HY, Bodenheimer T, Diaz I, Chen MA, Willard-Grace R, Zhang M, Johnson P, Qian Y, O'Donnell EM, Unruh MA

Primary Care Urgently Needs Support for Interprofessional Teams.

The Permanente journal

Kong M, Bodenheimer T

Revitalizing Primary Care, Part 2: Hopes for the Future.

Annals of family medicine

Bodenheimer T

Process evaluation of a medical assistant health coaching intervention for type 2 diabetes in diverse primary care settings.

Translational behavioral medicine

Clark TL, Fortmann AL, Philis-Tsimikas A, Bodenheimer T, Savin KL, Sandoval H, Bravin JI, Gallo LC

Revitalizing the U.S. Primary Care Infrastructure.

The New England journal of medicine

Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T, Cohen D, Phillips RL, Stange KC, Westfall JM

Integrating Physical Therapists Into Primary Care Within A Large Health Care System.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Bodenheimer T, Kucksdorf J, Torn A, Jerzak J

Medical assistant health coaching ("MAC") for type 2 diabetes in diverse primary care settings: A pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled trial protocol.

Contemporary clinical trials

Fortmann AL, Philis-Tsimikas A, Euyoque JA, Clark TL, Vital DG, Sandoval H, Bravin JI, Savin KL, Jones JA, Roesch S, Gilmer T, Bodenheimer T, Schultz J, Gallo LC

Models of Faculty Involvement in Primary Care Residency Teaching Clinics.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Bodenheimer T, Knox M, Kong M

Building Powerful Primary Care Teams.

Mayo Clinic proceedings

Bodenheimer T

Powering-Up Primary Care Teams: Advanced Team Care With In-Room Support.

Annals of family medicine

Sinsky CA, Bodenheimer T

Anatomy and Physiology of Primary Care Teams.

JAMA internal medicine

Bodenheimer T

Improving Access to Primary Care.

Medical care

Bodenheimer T

Interprofessional Care in Teaching Practices: Lessons From "Bright Spots".

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Bodenheimer T, Knox M, Syer S

Continuity and Access in the Era of Part-Time Practice.

Annals of family medicine

Bodenheimer T, Haq C, Lehmann W

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO): a new model for community health worker training and support.

Journal of public health policy

Komaromy M, Ceballos V, Zurawski A, Bodenheimer T, Thom DH, Arora S

Continuity of Care in Residency Teaching Practices: Lessons from "Bright Spots".

The Permanente journal

Dubé K, Gupta R, Kong M, Knox M, Bodenheimer T

Improving Care Teams' Functioning: Recommendations from Team Science.

Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety

Fiscella K, Mauksch L, Bodenheimer T, Salas E

Rethinking the Primary Care Workforce - An Expanded Role for Nurses.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T, Bauer L

What Happens After Health Coaching? Observational Study 1 Year Following a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Annals of family medicine

Sharma AE, Willard-Grace R, Hessler D, Bodenheimer T, Thom DH

Costs for a health coaching intervention for chronic care management.

The American journal of managed care

Wagner TH, Willard-Grace R, Chen E, Bodenheimer T, Thom DH

The Road to Excellence for Primary Care Resident Teaching Clinics.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Gupta R, Dubé K, Bodenheimer T

Teamlets in Primary Care: Enhancing the Patient and Clinician Experience.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Bodenheimer T, Willard-Grace R

Health coaching by medical assistants improves patients' chronic care experience.

The American journal of managed care

Thom DH, Hessler D, Willard-Grace R, DeVore D, Prado C, Bodenheimer T, Chen EH

Building teams in primary care: A practical guide.

Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare

Ghorob A, Bodenheimer T

Are Low-Income Peer Health Coaches Able to Master and Utilize Evidence-Based Health Coaching?

Annals of family medicine

Goldman ML, Ghorob A, Hessler D, Yamamoto R, Thom DH, Bodenheimer T

Unlicensed Health Care Personnel and Patient Outcomes.

Journal of general internal medicine

Bodenheimer T

Clinician perspectives on working with health coaches: A mixed methods approach.

Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare

Dubé K, Willard-Grace R, O'Connell B, DeVore D, Prado C, Bodenheimer T, Hessler D, Thom DH

Health coaching by medical assistants to improve control of diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia in low-income patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Annals of family medicine

Willard-Grace R, Chen EH, Hessler D, DeVore D, Prado C, Bodenheimer T, Thom DH

The panel management questionnaire: a tool to measure panel management capability.

The Permanente journal

Rogers EA, Hessler D, Dube K, Willard-Grace R, Gupta R, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

The impact of health coaching on medication adherence in patients with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension, and/or hyperlipidemia: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Thom DH, Willard-Grace R, Hessler D, DeVore D, Prado C, Bodenheimer T, Chen E

Expanding the roles of medical assistants: who does what in primary care?

JAMA internal medicine

Bodenheimer T, Willard-Grace R, Ghorob A

Does health coaching change patients' trust in their primary care provider?

Patient education and counseling

Thom DH, Hessler D, Willard-Grace R, Bodenheimer T, Najmabadi A, Araujo C, Chen EH

Find the "bright spots".

Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety

Bodenheimer TS

Team structure and culture are associated with lower burnout in primary care.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Willard-Grace R, Hessler D, Rogers E, Dubé K, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

The 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care.

Annals of family medicine

Bodenheimer T, Ghorob A, Willard-Grace R, Grumbach K

The emerging primary care workforce: preliminary observations from the primary care team: learning from effective ambulatory practices project.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Ladden MD, Bodenheimer T, Fishman NW, Flinter M, Hsu C, Parchman M, Wagner EH

Diabetes peer coaching: do "better patients" make better coaches?

The Diabetes educator

Rogers EA, Hessler DM, Bodenheimer TS, Ghorob A, Vittinghoff E, Thom DH

How primary care practices can improve continuity of care.

JAMA internal medicine

Gupta R, Bodenheimer T

Pharmacists belong in accountable care organizations and integrated care teams.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Smith M, Bates DW, Bodenheimer TS

How do peer coaches improve diabetes care for low-income patients?: a qualitative analysis.

The Diabetes educator

Goldman ML, Ghorob A, Eyre SL, Bodenheimer T

Three building blocks for improving access to care.

Family practice management

Ghorob A, Bodenheimer T

In search of joy in practice: a report of 23 high-functioning primary care practices.

Annals of family medicine

Sinsky CA, Willard-Grace R, Schutzbank AM, Sinsky TA, Margolius D, Bodenheimer T

Health coaching.

The virtual mentor : VM

Ghorob A, Willard-Grace R, Bodenheimer T

Peer coaching to improve diabetes self-management: which patients benefit most?

Journal of general internal medicine

Moskowitz D, Thom DH, Hessler D, Ghorob A, Bodenheimer T

Estimating a reasonable patient panel size for primary care physicians with team-based task delegation.

Annals of family medicine

Altschuler J, Margolius D, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

Facilitating improvement in primary care: the promise of practice coaching.

Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund)

Grumbach K, Bainbridge E, Bodenheimer T

Sharing the care to improve access to primary care.

The New England journal of medicine

Ghorob A, Bodenheimer T

Health coaching to improve hypertension treatment in a low-income, minority population.

Annals of family medicine

Margolius D, Bodenheimer T, Bennett H, Wong J, Ngo V, Padilla G, Thom DH

Delegating responsibility from clinicians to nonprofessional personnel: the example of hypertension control.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Margolius D, Wong J, Goldman ML, Rouse-Iniguez J, Bodenheimer T

Share the Care™: building teams in primary care practices.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Ghorob A, Bodenheimer T

The myth of the lone physician: toward a collaborative alternative.

Annals of family medicine

Saba GW, Villela TJ, Chen E, Hammer H, Bodenheimer T

Preparing primary care for the future - perspectives from the Netherlands, England, and USA.

Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen

Erler A, Bodenheimer T, Baker R, Goodwin N, Spreeuwenberg C, Vrijhoef HJ, Nolte E, Gerlach FM

From evidence-based medicine to evidence-based health: the example of asthma.

Preventing chronic disease

Moskowitz D, Bodenheimer T

Lessons from the trenches--a high-functioning primary care clinic.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Moving from evidence-based medicine to evidence-based health.

Journal of general internal medicine

Moskowitz D, Bodenheimer T

Lessons from my left foot.

Annals of family medicine

Bodenheimer T

Low-cost lessons from Grand Junction, Colorado.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T, West D

Health coaching in the teamlet model: a case study.

Journal of general internal medicine

Ngo V, Hammer H, Bodenheimer T

Using the Teamlet Model to improve chronic care in an academic primary care practice.

Journal of general internal medicine

Chen EH, Thom DH, Hessler DM, Phengrasamy L, Hammer H, Saba G, Bodenheimer T

Primary care: current problems and proposed solutions.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Bodenheimer T, Pham HH

Transforming primary care: from past practice to the practice of the future.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Margolius D, Bodenheimer T

Why pharmacists belong in the medical home.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Smith M, Bates DW, Bodenheimer T, Cleary PD

Care management of patients with complex health care needs.

The Synthesis project. Research synthesis report

Berry-Millett R, Bodenheimer TS

The health care problem no one's talking about.

The Journal of family practice

Berry-Millett R, Bandara S, Bodenheimer T

Follow the money--controlling expenditures by improving care for patients needing costly services.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T, Berry-Millett R

The political economy of U.S. primary care.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Sandy LG, Bodenheimer T, Pawlson LG, Starfield B

Goal-setting for behavior change in primary care: an exploration and status report.

Patient education and counseling

Bodenheimer T, Handley MA

A lifeline for primary care.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K, Berenson RA

Confronting the growing burden of chronic disease: can the U.S. health care workforce do the job?

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Bodenheimer T, Chen E, Bennett HD

The future of primary care--the community responds.

The New England journal of medicine

Scheffler R, Bodenheimer T, Lombardo P, Starfield B, Morris W, Treadway K, Woodson G, Goroll AH, Hartstein A, Lee TH

Perspective roundtable: redesigning primary care.

The New England journal of medicine

Lee TH, Bodenheimer T, Goroll AH, Starfield B, Treadway K

The future of primary care: transforming practice.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Hospitalists and care transitions: the divorce of inpatient and outpatient care.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Pham HH, Grossman JM, Cohen G, Bodenheimer T

Primary care's eroding earnings: is congress concerned?

The Journal of family practice

Laing BY, Bodenheimer T, Phillips RL, Bazemore A, Bazemore A

The specialist-generalist income gap: can we narrow it?

Journal of general internal medicine

Bodenheimer T, Matin M, Laing BY

Coordinating care--a perilous journey through the health care system.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Primary care: can it solve employers' health care dilemma?

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Sepulveda MJ, Bodenheimer T, Grundy P

The teamlet model of primary care.

Annals of family medicine

Bodenheimer T, Laing BY

What now? Practical advice on how to reduce medical and pharmacy costs.

Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.)

Bodenheimer T, Goodman J, Isham G, Nash D, Popik WC, Stefanacci RG

The primary care-specialty income gap: why it matters.

Annals of internal medicine

Bodenheimer T, Berenson RA, Rudolf P

Making systemwide improvements in health care: Lessons from Jönköping County, Sweden.

Quality management in health care

Bodenheimer T, Bojestig M, Henriks G

Hospital-physician portals: the role of competition in driving clinical data exchange.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Grossman JM, Bodenheimer TS, McKenzie K

Primary care--will it survive?

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Specialty-service lines: salvos in the new medical arms race.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Berenson RA, Bodenheimer T, Pham HH

Behavior-change action plans in primary care: a feasibility study of clinicians.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

MacGregor K, Handley M, Wong S, Sharifi C, Gjeltema K, Schillinger D, Bodenheimer T

Using action plans to help primary care patients adopt healthy behaviors: a descriptive study.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Handley M, MacGregor K, Schillinger D, Sharifi C, Wong S, Bodenheimer T

Effect of primary health care orientation on chronic care management.

Annals of family medicine

Schmittdiel JA, Shortell SM, Rundall TG, Bodenheimer T, Selby JV

The political divide in health care: a liberal perspective.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Bodenheimer T

Brief report: The prevalence and use of chronic disease registries in physician organizations. A national survey.

Journal of general internal medicine

Schmittdiel J, Bodenheimer T, Solomon NA, Gillies RR, Shortell SM

An empirical assessment of high-performing medical groups: results from a national study.

Medical care research and review : MCRR

Shortell SM, Schmittdiel J, Wang MC, Li R, Gillies RR, Casalino LP, Bodenheimer T, Rundall TG

Practice-based research in primary care: facilitator of, or barrier to, practice improvement?

Annals of family medicine

Bodenheimer T, Young DM, MacGregor K, Holtrop JS

The action plan project: discussing behavior change in the primary care visit.

Annals of family medicine

MacGregor K, Wong S, Sharifi C, Handley M, Bodenheimer T

Organizational factors affecting the adoption of diabetes care management processes in physician organizations.

Diabetes care

Li R, Simon J, Bodenheimer T, Gillies RR, Casalino L, Schmittdiel J, Shortell SM

What are the facilitators and barriers in physician organizations' use of care management processes?

Joint Commission journal on quality and safety

Bodenheimer T, Wang MC, Rundall TG, Shortell SM, Gillies RR, Oswald N, Casalino L, Robinson JC

Employers' efforts to measure and improve hospital quality: determinants of success.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Mehrotra A, Bodenheimer T, Dudley RA

Improving timely access to primary care: case studies of the advanced access model.

JAMA

Murray M, Bodenheimer T, Rittenhouse D, Grumbach K

External incentives, information technology, and organized processes to improve health care quality for patients with chronic diseases.

JAMA

Casalino L, Gillies RR, Shortell SM, Schmittdiel JA, Bodenheimer T, Robinson JC, Rundall T, Oswald N, Schauffler H, Wang MC

The movement for universal health insurance: finding common ground.

American journal of public health

Bodenheimer T

Two advertisements for TV drug ads.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Bodenheimer T

Capitation's uncertain future.

Journal of general internal medicine

Bodenheimer TS

Selective chaos.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Bodenheimer T

California's beleaguered physician groups--will they survive?

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Disease management in the American market.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Bodenheimer T

Emphasizing the 'care' in managed care. Interview by Patrick Mullen.

Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.)

Bodenheimer TS

Disease management--promises and pitfalls.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Questions and answers about Medicare.

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer T

The right-wing health agenda.

Journal of public health policy

Bodenheimer T

How large employers are shaping the health care marketplace. Second of two parts.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T, Sullivan K

How large employers are shaping the health care marketplace. First of two parts.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T, Sullivan K

The Oregon Health Plan--lessons for the nation. Second of two parts.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

The Oregon Health Plan--lessons for the nation. First of two parts.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

The logic of tax-based financing for health care.

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer T, Sullivan K

The HMO backlash--righteous or reactionary?

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Headaches, backaches--healthcare's industrial revolution.

Administrative radiology journal : AR

Bodenheimer T

The reconfiguration of US medicine.

JAMA

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

The organization of health care.

JAMA

Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T

Painful vs painless cost control.

JAMA

Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T

Reimbursing physicians and hospitals.

JAMA

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

Paying for health care.

JAMA

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

Paying for long-term care.

The Western journal of medicine

Estes CL, Bodenheimer T

Underinsurance in America.

The New England journal of medicine

Bodenheimer T

Insurance clerks are the real gatekeepers.

Medical economics

Bodenheimer T

Financing universal health insurance: taxes, premiums, and the lessons of social insurance.

Journal of health politics, policy and law

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

Private insurance reform in the 1990s: can it solve the health care crisis?

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer T

National health insurance and the problems of American medicine.

Family medicine

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K

Reins or fences: a physician's view of cost containment.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T

Should we abolish the private health insurance industry?

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer T

Health insurance mess.

Postgraduate medicine

Bodenheimer TS

Payment mechanisms under a national health program.

Medical care review

Bodenheimer TS

Health policy under austerity capitalism: the impact of the "tax revolt".

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer TS

Capitalizing on illness: the health insurance industry.

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer T, Cummings S, Harding E

Health care in the United States: who pays?

International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

Bodenheimer TS

The hoax of national health insurance.

American journal of public health

Bodenheimer TS

A blood-brain barrier to peroxidase in capillaries surrounded by perivascular spaces.

The American journal of anatomy

Bodenheimer TS, Brightman MW

Ultrastructural features of the shark brain.

The American journal of anatomy

Long DM, Bodenheimer TS, Hartmann JF, Klatzo I

THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF MAUTHNER CELL SYNAPSES AND NODES IN GOLDFISH BRAINS.

The Journal of cell biology

ROBERTSON JD, BODENHEIMER TS, STAGE DE