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Physician Practice Information Survey RUC Meeting – April 23, 2008 (updated 4/30/2008)

Physician Practice Information Survey RUC Meeting – April 23, 2008 (updated 4/30/2008) Survey Re-launch Dmr kynetec mailed survey packets in three waves from late January through late March. All sample for each specialty (1,000 per specialty) was released.

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Physician Practice Information Survey RUC Meeting – April 23, 2008 (updated 4/30/2008)

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  1. Physician Practice Information SurveyRUC Meeting – April 23, 2008(updated 4/30/2008)

  2. Survey Re-launch • Dmrkynetec mailed survey packets in three waves from late January through late March. • All sample for each specialty (1,000 per specialty) was released. • More than 50,000 physicians received the survey packet. • 100 interviewers began calling the first wave on January 31. All physicians should have received at least one phone call. Some physicians have received as many as 15 calls.

  3. Expectations • 1,000 new completes by April 30. • 3,000 completed surveys by August 31 • 4,000 completed surveys by October 31 • 100 useable completes per specialty (5,000 overall) by December 31, 2008 • PE/Hour computations to be delivered to CMS by March 31, 2009.

  4. Responses to Date • 621 useable completes from 2007 Gallup effort. Dmrkynetec continues to work to improve the number of useable Gallup surveys by re-contacting physicians. • 1,279 Dmrkynetec New Completes • Total of 1,900 Completed Surveys • Project is 32% Complete

  5. Groups with 40% Complete + • Podiatry 99% • Clinical Social Work 70% • Optometry 67% • Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy 62% • Colon and Rectal Surgery 62% • Allergy and Immunology 58% • Oral Surgery (Dentist only) 56%

  6. Groups with 40% Complete + • Audiologist 53% • Chiropractor 50% • Rheumatology 47% • Pediatrics 43% • Vascular Surgery 43% • Ophthalmology 40% • Physical Medicine and Rehab 40%

  7. Need to Increase Communication Efforts for These Specialties • Internal Medicine 19% • Endocrinology 19% • Pain Medicine 18% • Spine Surgery 18% • Nuclear Medicine 17% • Otolaryngology 17% • Medical Oncology 14% • Cardiology 10%

  8. Communication • The AMA has organized e-mail announcements from Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM), Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Practice Management Center (PMC) • AMA organized uniform announcement used by each of these groups and the participating specialty societies

  9. Communication • January 21 edition of Advocacy Update • January 22 edition of Federation News • January 28-31, 5 day run in Morning Rounds • January 28 - AMA Website - Headline Story • March/April AMA Voice Article • March 20 eVoice • April 1 Federation Newsletter

  10. Communication • Specialty societies have been cooperative: websites, e-mails, newsletters, membership lists, etc. • Need to ramp up communication again. We encourage broadcast e-mails and will distribute a new message to send out. • Dmrkynetec just sent 30,000 e-mails and faxes this week. • AMA will be providing 40,000 postcards for Dmrkynetec to send to the sample.

  11. Reporting Results • Progress reports will be shared on a weekly basis with all specialty societies – beginning May 1st. • Survey firm projects that major data collection will be completed by August 31 • 4th quarter of 2008 will then be utilized to re-contact physicians with missing responses and to focus on specialties that do not meet the precision criteria.

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