For Physicians
New PHCQA Physician Reporting Initiative
The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance, under the guidance of its Physician Advisory Committee, is planning to launch a new initiative to publicly report quality data from the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative. Physician practices who are participating throughout the state will be given an opportunity to participate and highlight their successes.
For practices that choose to participate in this initiative, their data will be extracted from the Improving Performance In Practice (IPIP) database, the data warehouse used to store the quality of care metrics collected through the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative. PHCQA will then show this data on a consumer-friendly quality report, similar in format to its hospital quality report. All participating physician practices will be time to review their data on a secure version of the PHCQA website before it is made public.
Currently, PHCQA has selected four Diabetes Care measures and two optional Preventative Care measures to be included on the physician report:
Diabetes Care Measures
- A1C documented within the last year
- Most recent A1C level greater than 9.0%
- Tested for nephropathy or already under treatment
- Received a retinal eye exam
Preventative Care Measures (Optional)
- Breast Cancer Screening
- Colorectal Cancer Screening
The first round of quality reporting will only be available on practices who are currently participating in the Chronic Care Initiative. However, we are exploring a variety of methods to allow non-CCI physician practices to share their data with the public in future iterations of this report.
For more information, or to get involved in planning this effort, please contact one of the following individuals:
John Bulger, MD., Chair of the PHCQA Physician Advisory Committee, Geisinger Health System
(570) 214-3821
Erik Muther, Executive Director, PHCQA
(215) 241-3097 or Erik.Muther@phcqa.org
