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Vol.4 , No. 6, Publication Date: Nov. 13, 2017, Page: 64-67
 Scores Across a Large Diverse Outpatient Network&description=The project is a retrospective study analyzing HEDIS quality measure scores documentation before and after group educational interventions over a period of one year. The study was conducted in a large network of outpatient family medicine clinics. Each clinic worked to develop a team-based approach to address the selected measures as a partnership between providers, medical assistants and supporting staff. The Department of Billing Collections collected the data for the study. The project leader analyzed the reports and communicated the results to the providers. Focused education on how to improve HEDIS scores was performed. Peer comparisons lead to competitive pressure among providers and resulted in significant improvement in scores for many of the HEDIS measures. At the end of the project, the change in score was calculated for each physician. Wilcoxon Signed rank test was used to see if there was a significant change. There was a significant increase in HEDIS score for seven of the nine measures from January to December.&picture=http://www.aascit.org/aascit/decorators/img/journal/908.jpg)
| [1] | Judella Haddad-Lacle, Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, U.S.A. |
| [2] | Lori Billelo, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, U.S.A. |
| [3] | Charles Haddad, Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, U.S.A. |
| [4] | Christopher Scuderi, Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, U.S.A. |
The project is a retrospective study analyzing HEDIS quality measure scores documentation before and after group educational interventions over a period of one year. The study was conducted in a large network of outpatient family medicine clinics. Each clinic worked to develop a team-based approach to address the selected measures as a partnership between providers, medical assistants and supporting staff. The Department of Billing Collections collected the data for the study. The project leader analyzed the reports and communicated the results to the providers. Focused education on how to improve HEDIS scores was performed. Peer comparisons lead to competitive pressure among providers and resulted in significant improvement in scores for many of the HEDIS measures. At the end of the project, the change in score was calculated for each physician. Wilcoxon Signed rank test was used to see if there was a significant change. There was a significant increase in HEDIS score for seven of the nine measures from January to December.
Keywords
HEDIS Quality Measures, Value-Based Performance, Team Based Care, MACRA
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