Table 1:

Characteristics of Physician Practices Stratified by Ownership Type, Weighted (2017/2018)

	Overall	Independent	Larger Physician Group	Federally Qualified Health Center	Hospital or Health Care System	Other	p-value
n (% of organizations)	2190	565 (25.8%)	243 (11.1%)	314 (13.34%)	1,018 (46.48%)	50 (2.28%)
Organizational Capabilities, mean (SD)
Basic Health Information Technology	68.6 (20.5)	70.6 (19.0)	66.8 (23.8)	67.6 (18.5)	68.2 (21.5)	65.6 (20.2)	0.38
Advanced Health Information Technology	2.9 (1.4)	2.5 (1.4)	3.2 (1.4)	2.9 (1.4)	3.1 (1.3)	2.8 (1.2)	<0.001
Screening Activity	54.2 (25.5)	51.6 (21.7)	55.3 (28)	65.8 (24.2)	51.2 (26.5)	54.8 (26)	<0.001
Internal Dissemination Strategies	63.3 (31.4)	47 (29.1)	71.7 (30.4)	73.2 (24.6)	68.8 (31.7)	64.1 (27.7)	<0.001
Patient Responsiveness	76.9 (16.2)	79.1 (13.9)	78.1 (17.6)	75.9 (15.4)	75.2 (17.6)	81.9 (13.2)	<0.001
Chronic Care Management Processes	49.3 (33.3)	43.9 (33.7)	56.9 (35.8)	56.6 (29.5)	48.6 (33.1)	48.5 (28.3)	<0.001
Payment Reform, mean (SD)	1.3 (1.3)	1 (1)	1.6 (1.4)	1.4 (1.3)	1.5 (1.4)	1.7 (1.4)	<0.001
Medicaid Revenue, %
None (0%)	13.2	27.3	16.1	3.8	7.6	12	<0.001
Low (1–33%)	65	63.9	69.6	48.7	69.5	66
High (33% or above)	21.9	8.9	14.4	47.5	23	22
Practice Size, %
0–3 physicians	24.6	34.2	23.1	18.2	21.6	26	<0.001
4–7 physicians	38.6	43.5	32.5	34.1	38.6	40
8–12 physicians	15.1	12.9	9.9	19.1	16.3	16
13–19 physicians	7.6	3.5	10.3	14	7.6	2
20+ physicians	14.1	5.8	24.3	14.7	15.9	16
Region, %
West	25	23.2	37	32.5	20.4	34	<0.001
South	28.8	20.5	21.4	23.6	37.2	20
Northeast	19.8	22.1	15.6	22.3	19.1	12
Midwest	26.4	34.2	25.9	21.7	23.3	34

Source: National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems (NSHOS). Results are weighted and displayed as percentages for binary variables and mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables. P-value represents statistically significant differences in the variable across ownership types using Chi-square tests for categorical variables and ANOVA tests for continuous variables.