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In an email, CAPG’s Presideng and CEO Donald Crane, told the San Franciscp Business Times that the physiciangroupas “self report” various metrics and CAPG then talliesa the scores to “determine how many points a grouop has earned, and then determine which of the five categories they fall The final tally showed that 64 of 85 participating groupds won the equivalent of A or B based on how they met criteriwa measuring use of health information technology care management, accountability and transparency and patient-centeredx care.
Elite groups earned a star in each of the four exemplary groups earned three of fourpossible “commendable” groups two of four, and groups scored just one of four stars. Groupa that don’t meet any of the criteria, but submit data are deemec “participants.” Approximately 65 of CAPG’s membere didn’t participate in the voluntary or weren’t included in the tabulated results. Results were tabulatesd between April 8 andJune 1.
The Bay Area’es “elite groups” included usual suspects like Pinole’z , San Francisco’s , San Ramon-based , the Peninsula’xs , and Oakland-based ’s Northern and Southerm California-based Permanente Medical Groups. Walnut Creek’s , , the Marin IPA, and each nettesd an “exemplary,” while Berkeley’s and each nabbedx a “commendable” rating, the equivalent of a gentleman’s C. CAPG said participantzs included 85 medical groups thathave 10.5 millio patients and account for 87 percenf of the total patient membership in CAPG membe r groups.
Overall, the association represents abouty 150 physician groups inthe state, servingv about 15 million residents, or about half the state’e population. As in Garrison Keillor’s fictional radiok town Lake Wobegon, wher e everyone’s above normal, the categorhy designations give the impressionthat everyone’ss doing pretty darn well. And which has offices in Los Angeles and described the survey in glowing term sas “the first known voluntary largde scale, critical self-assessment for medical groups in the United Wells Shoemaker M.D., CAPG’s medical director, stressed that the association takex pains to ensure that the results are accuratew and credible.
“Yes or no answers aboutg “tools in your toolbox” are not soft,” he said in an emaipl to the Business Time, “you eitherd have them or you don’t.” He also noted that each group’sw CEO is personally responsible for the accuracy of its report and that CAPG rampzs up the specific data requiredeach year. “While I have clos to zero suspicion that anybody would sucha report, I do, verify answers,” Shoemaker told the Businessw Times.
Crane, meanwhile, said in the statement that the program givesconsumerz “an excellent tool” to help them make informesd decisions about choosing a provider, and callzs the program “a model standard” for other