Table 3.

ACOS Reporting Advanced Capabilities, by CHC Inclusion: Health Information Technology (HIT), Care Management, and Quality Improvement

	Includes CHC (N = 44, 28 %)	Does not include CHC (N = 112, 72 %)	P Value on Difference*
Health information technology (%)
Advanced HIT capabilities	32 %	50 %	0.047
Meaningful use by majority of PCPs	83 %	89 %	0.283
Care management (%)
Pre-visit planning and medication management	23 %	19 %	0.671
Chronic care management processes and programs	41 %	26 %	0.069
Systems for care transitions across practice setting	18 %	19 %	0.859
Behavioral health integration into primary care	23 %	8 %	0.016
Patient involvement in care decisions, self-management	32 %	18 %	0.062
Established end-of-life care processes and protocols	20 %	21 %	0.988
Quality improvement (%)
Assessment of preventable hospital readmissions	45 %	47 %	0.882
Reduction of hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions	41 %	44 %	0.770
Assessment of inappropriate ED use	52 %	41 %	0.218
Use of disease monitoring data	66 %	60 %	0.487
Assessment of patient care satisfaction	53 %	60 %	0.455
Clinician training in continuous QI methods	36 %	34 %	0.751
Use of ACO-wide formulary	44 %	36 %	0.353

*p values are from two tailed t-tests for means or proportions (depending on measurement of the variable)

PCP primary care provider; ED emergency department; QI quality improvement