Updated as of January 22, 2016
- Team, in this indicator, is “physician group” ie FHO or FHN, not FHT.
- Virtual rostering assigns patients to the primary care physician that provided the highest dollar amount of services within a defined set of primary care services. Your team may not be aware of which patients have been virtually rostered to them so may erroneously think that these patients are not “their” patients. Hence, your team’s sense of how many of “their” patient’s visits were made to a provider in the team may be different than the rate shown in D2D.
- Visits to health care providers other than physicians are not included in this measure, however this does not necessarily skew the measure.
- g. if a patient visits a primary care team 10 times and sees a physician 8 times, regardless of whether or not it was their “own” physician , they will score 100% (8 out of 8) for “regular care provider – team”. If, however, they visit 10 times, receiving care from multiple providers but only saw a physician once, they would still score 100% on this measure, regardless of whether they say their “own” physician
- Teams with part-time physicians and teaching teams may have developed strong relationships between physicians to jointly care for patients, such that patients may feel equally comfortable and familiar with more than one physician. This principle is at the core of team-based care and is reflected in higher performance on the “regular care provider – team” vs. “regular care provider – individual” measure across most teams in D2D 2.0.
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