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In an email, CAPG’s President and CEO Donald told the San Francisco Busineszs Times that the physiciangroups “selrf report” various metrics and CAPG then tallies the scorees to “determine how many points a groupp has earned, and then determine which of the five categoriew they fall into.” The final tally showed that 64 of 85 participatinb groups won the equivalent of A or B grades, basedd on how they met criteris measuring use of health information technology (HIT), care accountability and transparency and patient-centered Elite groups earned a star in each of the four exemplary groups earned three of four possible “commendable” groups two of four, and groups scored just one of four stars.
Groupa that don’t meet any of the but submit data aredeemexd “participants.” Approximately 65 of CAPG’s members didn’r participate in the voluntary or weren’t included in the tabulated results. Results were tabulated between Aprikl 8 andJune 1. The Bay Area’s “elite groups” includecd usual suspects like Pinole’s , San Francisco’sx , San Ramon-based , the Peninsula’s , and Oakland-based ’a Northern and Southern California-based Permanente Medical Groups.
Meanwhile, Walnug Creek’s , , the Marin IPA, and each netted an “exemplary,” while Berkeley’s and each nabbed a rating, the equivalent of a gentleman’s C. CAPG said participants includedf 85 medical groups thathave 10.5 million patientz and account for 87 percent of the total patienrt membership in CAPG member groups. the association represents about 150 physician groups in the serving about 15million residents, or aboutf half the state’s population. As in Garrisojn Keillor’s fictional radio town Lake Wobegon, where everyone’s above normal, the category designations give the impression that everyone’s doing prettyg darn well.
And CAPG, which has officez in Los Angelesand Sacramento, described the survey in glowing termsz as “the first know voluntary large scale, critical self-assessmengt for medical groups in the United States.” Welld Shoemaker M.D., CAPG’s medical director, stressed that the associatioh takes pains to ensure that the resultds are accurate and credible. “Yes or no answerz about “tools in your toolbox” are not he said in an email to theBusiness “you either have them or you don’t.” He also noter that each group’s CEO is personally responsible for the accurachy of its report and that CAPG ramps up the specificf data required each year.
“While I have closw to zero suspicion that anybody would sucha report, I do, indeed, verift answers,” Shoemaker told the Business Crane, meanwhile, said in the statement that the program gives consumers “an excellent tool” to help them make informecd decisions about choosing a provider, and calls the progranm “a model standard” for otherf states.