Exhibit 6. Average percent of visits provided by the PQRS-reporting and plurality NPIs and attribution overlap.
| 2008 | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of NPI | Type of NPI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Care | Medical Specialist | Surgical Specialist | Practitioner Assistant | Total | Primary Care | Medical Specialist | Surgical Specialist | Practitioner Assistant | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average percent of NH-E&M visits provided by the PQRS-reporting NPI | 28.4 | 7.9 | 15.4 | 6.9 | 10.9 | 38.9 | 11.1 | 17.7 | 8.8 | 17.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of beneficiary/PQRS NPI combinations | 219,556 | 1,323,682 | 85,401 | 85,731 | 1,714,370 | 1,110,993 | 3,792,557 | 387,436 | 235,768 | 5,526,754 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average percent of NH-E&M visits provided by the plurality NPI | 59.3 | 41.5 | 47.3 | 42.9 | 50.5 | 58.6 | 40.9 | 46.7 | 43.2 | 50.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of beneficiary/plurality NPI combinations | 3,584,333 | 3,113,751 | 646,006 | 219,101 | 7,563,191 | 3,495,845 | 2,957,612 | 622,020 | 237,334 | 7,312,811 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overlap of PQRS and plurality NPI (percent) | 50.2 | 24.9 | 33.6 | 16.1 | 28.2 | 55.0 | 26.4 | 26.7 | 12.7 | 31.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SOURCE: Authors’ analyses.