Table 1.
CPC Initiative Practice Characteristics Compared With National Benchmarks
| Practice Characteristic | CPC Initiative Practices (n = 496) |
National Benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| Primary care or multispecialty practice: multispecialty, % | 11.9 | 6.1 |
| Ownership, % | ||
| Owned by hospital, hospital system, academic institution, or HMO | 43.8 | 10.5 |
| Owned by physicians | 54.4 | 89.5 |
| Owned by government or other organization | 1.8 | NR |
| Patient mix: African American patients, % | 4.6 | 13.4 |
| Patients per FTE physician in practice, average No. | 1,475.5 | NR |
| Distribution of number of patients per FTE physicians in practice, % | ||
| <500 | 6.0 | NR |
| 500–1,000 | 22.6 | NR |
| 1,000–1,499 | 36.7 | NR |
| 1,500–1,999 | 16.5 | NR |
| 2,000–2,499 | 9.1 | NR |
| ≥2,500 | 9.0 | NR |
| Primary care physicians attesting as meaningful users of electronic health records, % | 67.8 | 17.8 |
| Practice location, % | ||
| Located in metropolitan area | 84.7 | NR |
| Located in nonmetropolitan area | 15.3 | NR |
CPC = Comprehensive Primary Care; FTE = full-time equivalent; HMO = health maintenance organization; NR = not reported.
Source: For CPC initiative practices, data for the percentage of African American patients per practice are from the Medicare Enrollment Data base; data on the number of patients per FTE physician per practice are from the patient roster; the other data are from the CPC initiative practice application. Metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas are based on the US Census urban/rural continuum code as reported in the 2009 Area Resource File. National benchmarks for electronic health record meaningful use estimates are based on meaningful-use attestation data provided by CMS and reported by Wright et al.40 All other national benchmarks come from a survey fielded between July 2007 and March 2009 for the National Study of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices, a nationally representative, random sample of 1,325 practices with fewer than 20 physicians drawn from the IMS Healthcare Organization Services database. The survey had an overall response rate of 63.2%. Results were restricted to practices that had at least 33% primary care physicians. Unlike the CPC initiative sample, a practice was not restricted to clinicians who were practicing in the same physical location.