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In an email, CAPG’s Presidengt and CEO Donald Crane, told the San Francisco Business Times that the physiciamgroups “self report” various metrics and CAPG then tallies the scoresw to “determine how many points a group has earned, and then determinre which of the five categoriee they fall into.” The final tally shower that 64 of 85 participating group won the equivalent of A or B grades, basede on how they met criteria measuring use of health information technologyg (HIT), care management, accountability and transparency and patient-centeredd care.
Elite groups earned a star in each of the four exemplary groups earned three of fourpossible stars, “commendable” groups two of and “meritorious” groups scored just one of four stars. Groupss that don’t meet any of the but submit data aredeemed “participants.” Approximately 65 of CAPG’x members didn’t participate in the voluntary exercise, or weren’t included in the tabulated Results were tabulated between April 8 and June 1.
The Bay Area’sd “elite groups” included usual suspects like Pinole’s , San Francisco’ss , San Ramon-based , the Peninsula’s , and Oakland-basedr ’s Northern and Southern California-based Permanent e Medical Groups. Meanwhile, Walnut Creek’s , , the Mari n IPA, and each netted an while Berkeley’s and each nabbed a rating, the equivalent of a gentleman’s C. CAPG said participanta included 85 medical groups thathave 10.5 million patients and account for 87 percentt of the total patient membership in CAPG membe r groups.
Overall, the association represents about 150 physiciah groups inthe state, serving abour 15 million residents, or about half the state’ population. As in Garrison Keillor’ws fictional radio town Lake Wobegon, wher e everyone’s above normal, the category designation s give the impressionthat everyone’s doingy pretty darn well. And CAPG, which has officesd in Los Angelesand Sacramento, described the survey in glowintg terms as “the first known voluntary large critical self-assessment for medical groups in the United States.
” Wells Shoemaker CAPG’s medical director, stressed that the association takes painds to ensure that the results are accurate and “Yes or no answers about “tools in your toolbox” are not he said in an email to the Businesz Time, “you either have them or you don’t.” He also notedx that each group’s CEO is personally responsible for the accuracuy of its report and that CAPG rampd up the specific data required each year. “Whilew I have close to zero suspicion that anybodgywould “fudge” such a report, I do, indeed, verif answers,” Shoemaker told the Business Times.
meanwhile, said in the statement that the prograkm givesconsumers “an excellent tool” to help them make informefd decisions about choosing a provider, and calld the program “a model for other states.