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PROGRAM SPONSORSHIP

Formal name of the incentive and/or reward program initiative (if applicable)

Program name Primary Care Physician Incentive Program

Program sponsor(s) and parent organization of sponsor(s), if applicable

Program sponsor(s) Paramount Health Care
Parent organization ProMedica Health System

Primary program contact information

Name Marcia Kasza
Title Senior Project Coordinator
Organization Paramount Health Care
Email marcia.kasza@promedica.org
Phone 419.887.2853

Sponsoring organization type

Health Plan(s) Single HMO

Source of funding associated with program set-up costs

Funding source
Funded by program sponsor(s)

Percent contributed by sponsor and grant organization

Program set-up costs 0

Source of funding associated with program operations costs

Funding source
Funded by program sponsor(s)

Percent contributed by sponsor and by grant organization

Program operations cost 0

Start date & end date of the program

Start Date 01/01/1991
End ongoing

 
PROGRAM SCOPE

Geographic scope of program Ohio
Individuals affected by program as a percentage of total population, if known
Employer/commercial health plan- active workers
(indicate %) 66
Employer/commercial health plan- dependents
(indicate %) 34
Plan product(s) the program applies to (for plan sponsors only)
HMO
HMO/POS

Direct target(s) of your program's incentives/rewards

Physician type
PCPs
Recruitment of program targets
Mandatory- all members of the target group must participate (e.g. part of contracting)


PROGRAM PERFORMANCE MEASURES

Outpatient clinical and safety measures included in the program

Measure sources
HEDIS (clinical components)

Measurement areas

Other measurement areas
Diabetes
Pediatric Preventive Care

Resource Utilization and Cost

Resource utilization
Emergency room (ER) visits
Pharmaceutical usage- prescriptions per patient visit rate
Cost
Total cost in Episode Treatment Groups (ETGs)

Consumer measures

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Data Reliability

Sources of data

Existing or new data Existing data sources, New data collected explicitly for program reporting
Data type
Administrative in origin (derived from claims data)
Medical record data
Data extracting entity
Program target
Data aggregator/analyzer
Program sponsor
Ensures data accuracy Yes
Means of ensuring accuracy
Other
Specify audits are in place within the department that extracts and formulates the data
Risk-adjustment mechanisms used
Adjustment for clinical risk factors
Specify methodology Medstat


INCENTIVE/REWARD CHARACTERISTICS

Start date & end date of the incentive/reward

Start Date 01/01/1991
End Date ongoing

Structure of the incentive or reward

Direct financial reward- increased payment
Lump-sum bonus
Upper reward limit 3.00 pmpm

Scoring used to determine payment

Absolute goals- patient level measures
Pay for meeting specific sub goals related to overall measure/group of measures
Relative goals
Other
Specify ranking to peer group cost measures and patient satisfaction measures
Frequency of reward or penalty
Bi-annually
Time lag between measurement and receiving reward/penalty
Greater than six months
Total dollar amounts awarded during the most recent calendar year $900,000.00
Source of financial payments for meeting performance goals
Current budget redistributed


COLLABORATION CHARACTERISTICS

Phases of program where sought target collaboration
Program design and creation
Characteristics of pre-implementation target feedback
Provider participation in program design
Receives compensation for administrative burden of data collection No
Characteristics of post-implementation target feedback
Incentive target given opportunity for full explanation of results before use
Incentive target groups/individuals given comparative information
Information provided on how results will be used
Process available for target to provide additional information and/or corrections
Blinding of performance feedback with targets
Results disclosed with comparison to benchmarks
Frequency of performance feedback to the targets
Semi-annual


PROGRAM EVALUATION

How the program evaluates its success
Improvements in clinical performance
Evaluator
Program sponsor

 

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