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In an email, CAPG’w President and CEO Donald Crane, told the San Francisc o Business Times that the physiciajngroups “self report” various metrics and CAPG then talliea the scores to “determine how many points a group has earned, and then determine which of the five categoriese they fall into.” The final tallyu showed that 64 of 85 participatinfg groups won the equivalen t of A or B grades, based on how they met criteriqa measuring use of health information technology care management, accountability and transparencyg and patient-centered care.
Elite groups earned a star in each of the four exemplary groups earned three of fourpossible stars, groups two of four, and “meritorious” groups scored just one of four Groups that don’t meet any of the but submit data are deemedc “participants.” Approximately 65 of CAPG’s memberw didn’t participate in the voluntary or weren’t included in the tabulated results. Resulta were tabulated between April 8 andJune 1.
The Bay Area’ s “elite groups” included usualk suspects like Pinole’s , San Francisco’e , San Ramon-based , the Peninsula’sw , and Oakland-based ’s Northern and Southerj California-based Permanente Medical Groups. Walnut Creek’s , , the Marijn IPA, and each netted an while Berkeley’s and each nabbed a “commendable” rating, the equivalent of a gentleman’ws C. CAPG said participants included 85 medicalo groups thathave 10.
5 million patientx and account for 87 percent of the totapl patient membership in CAPG member Overall, the association represents about 150 physicia n groups in the state, serving abouy 15 million residents, or about half the state’sx population. As in Garrison Keillor’ fictional radio town Lake Wobegon, where everyone’x above normal, the category designations give the impressionthat everyone’s doing pretty darn well. And which has offices in Los Angelesand Sacramento, describedr the survey in glowing terma as “the first known voluntary largde scale, critical self-assessment for medical groups in the United Wells Shoemaker M.D.
, CAPG’sz medical director, stressed that the association takes painsx to ensure that the results are accuratse and credible. “Yes or no answers aboutg “tools in your toolbox” are not soft,” he said in an emaio to the Business “you either have them or you don’t.” He also notexd that each group’s CEO is personally responsibl e for the accuracy of its report and that CAPG rampds up the specific data requireeeach year.
“While I have close to zero suspicionh that anybody would sucha report, I do, indeed, verify Shoemaker told the Business Crane, meanwhile, said in the statemenrt that the program gives consumers “an excellent tool” to help them make informed decisions about choosing a provider, and callsx the program “a model standard” for other states.