California Physician Performance Initiative (CPPI)
The California Physician Performance Initiative (CPPI), begun in 2006, has developed a system to measure and report the quality of patient care that is provided by individual physicians in California. CPPI’s goal is to improve patient care and its affordability by:
- Reporting results to physicians to help them gauge how well care for their patients meets national standards of care.
- Applying the performance results in ways to help consumers and purchasers get better value when they choose and use health care.
- Adopting performance measures and reporting methods using the best available science to set performance standards.
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Project Information
The next cycle of California Physician Performance Initiative (CPPI) results are scheduled to be mailed to more than 20,000 California physicians in Summer 2009.
An initial step in the physician quality reporting work is to further improve the accuracy of the physicians’ demographic information to ensure that:
- Patients are attributed to the right physicians per the physician's primary specialty;
- Physicians are clustered in meaningful practice sites; and
- Communications are mailed to the physician's current address.
Physicians or their staff are encouraged to confirm or correct their name, specialty, address and more here. Any corrections that are provided by June 12, 2009 will be incorporated in this cycle of performance reporting.
Physician Performance 2008 Report
In October 2008, Physician Performance Reports were mailed to upwards of 20,000 California physicians. See below for a sample of the 2008 report and a description of the quality measures and methodology used in the 2008 report.
See Explanation and a Sample of the 2008 Physician Performance Report
Quality Measures Used in the 2008 Physician Performance Report
Methodology Used in the 2008 Physician Performance Report
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Administration
Physician Advisory Group roster
The CPPI Physician Advisory Group provides clinical review and guidance related to the design of the program, selection of measures, review of findings, and presentation of results to physicians
CCHRI Executive Committee roster
The CCHRI Executive Committee provides strategic CPPI project oversight, including development and implementation of this CPPI communication plan. Executive Committee members represent physicians, medical groups, health plans, purchasers and consumers.
Calendar of CPPI Governance meetings
Links
- Patient Charter
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project (CPD) is a group of leading employer, consumer, and labor organizations working toward a common goal to ensure that all Americans have access to publicly-reported health care performance information. With this information, Americans will be better able to select hospitals, physicians, and treatments based on nationally-standardized measures for clinical quality, consumer experience, equity, and efficiency. CCHRI is aligning with these guidelines.
- AQA Alliance
The AQA’s mission is to improve health care quality and patient safety through a collaborative process in which key stakeholders agree on a strategy for measuring performance at the physician or group level; collecting and aggregating data in the least burdensome way; and reporting meaningful information to consumers, physicians, and other stakeholders to inform choices and improve outcomes.
- National Quality Forum
The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
AHRQ provides tools and information for Chartered Value Exchanges, multi-stakeholder collaboratives that have taken clear action in their community to convene community purchasers, health plans, providers, and consumers to advance the Secretary of Health and Human Services four cornerstones of Value-Driven Health Care.
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services BQI Project
The Better Quality Information to Improve Care for Medicare Beneficiaries (BQI) Project was a two-year project (2006 - 2008) funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As part of this project, the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care subcontracted with six communities, including the California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative. Click on this link to read the BQI final report, Enhancing Physician Quality Performance Measurement and Reporting Through Data Aggregation.
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