Explanation and Sample of 2009 Physician Performance Report

The purpose of the Physician Performance Reports is to advise physicians of the quality measurement work that is underway in California, to share results with physicians, and to begin an information exchange about ways to improve the measurement data and performance.

While the California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative has no plans at this time to publicly report these results, the three participating health plans will determine how these results will be used with their client, members and participating physicians upon receipt of the information in fall 2009.

The 2009 Physician Performance Reports will be mailed to physicians during the last week of July 2009.  California physicians who contracted with one or more of the three largest PPOs in California (Anthem/Blue Cross, Blue Shield and United Healthcare) and the Anthem/Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMOs were eligible to have received a report.  Using the 2008 data, approximately 20,000 physicians had a reliable score for at least one of the sixteen measures and received a Physician Performance Report.

To view a sample Physician Performance Report, click here.

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Blue Shield of California announced that the health plan will launch its physician quality recognition program June 1, 2010. Network physician listings will include physician quality designations for a set of 8 CPPI quality measures. A set of physicians, who have sufficient patient samples to be reliably scored, have been designated as higher quality performing physicians for select preventive screening and chronic care measures. Blue Shield members can view this new information in the plan's online physician directory. See the Blue Shield announcement here.

Physicians in the Blue Shield network who would like to request a duplicate of the Physician Performance Report that you received last summer may request a copy here.

CPPI Project Communications
Julie France, PBGH
jfrance@pbgh.org