Integrated Healthcare Association names California's top-quality medical groups - East Bay Business Times:

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That includes seven groups honored for being the top performera in theirgeographic regions, the Oakland-basee IHA said Friday. of San Jose won that honor in the Bay according tothe IHA, whicgh coordinates the P4P program. bonus payments are made directly to participatinf medical groups and independent practice associationes or IPAs by health insurance plans suchas , , , , and , whichh cumulatively paid $55 million in the bonuses last The top-performing medical groups received the newly names Ronald P. Bangasser, M.D., Memoria Award for Quality Improvement, which recognizese the late Dr. Bangasser, who died of cancet earlier this year.
Bangasset was a former president of the andchairef IHA'a P4P technical qualitgy committee. Overall, groups participating in the IHA program represengtabout 40,000 doctors with some 12 million patients. The nonprofit associatio n saysits pay-for-performance program is the largest in the nation; criticz contend that the relatively small bonuses that groupsw and individual physicians obtain through P4P aren't significant enoughn to encourage them to make but necessary changes in how they practicr medicine. Other Bay Area medical groupx or IPAs that finished in the top 20 percengt of the IHA based on2006 performance, included: San Ramon-basede Bay operations. , based in Walnutr Creek.
, based in Fostert City. , which is affiliated with Suttedr Health. Burlingame's Mills-Peninsula Medical Group, also part of Sacramento-basedx Sutter. The Palo Alto Medical Foundation'sx Palo Alto division, also a Sutter Seven of Kaiser's Bay Area Permanente Medical Groupo units, including those in the outerr EastBay (Tri-Valley area), East Bay, southerh Alameda County, Marin-San Rafael, Redwood City, San Francisco, Santa Clara-Milpitas-Campbell-Mountainb View, San Jose-Gilroy, and Southu San Francisco. Notable omissions from the list includedSan Francisco's , the Emeryville-basex , and the Santa Clara Countg IPA, commonly known as SCCIPA.
In the Sacramento-Nort geographic region, Hill Physicians also finisher among thetop groups, based on the performances of its Solano unit, as did four Permanente Medicaol Group units (Marin-San Rafael, Napa-Solano, Nortj Valley-Roseville-Sacramento, and South Sacramento), severaol Sutter Health-affiliated groups ( / , and , plus / . The awardx are based on criteria involving preventive chroniccare management, patient satisfactionb and enhanced use of information technology. Clinical qualityy measures accounted for half ofthe scores, patient experience for 30 percent, and IT for 20 percent, according to the IHA.
Othefr statewide winners of the IHA's Bangasser award included Seaview IPA in the central coast of in theInland Empire, St. Mary'sx IPA/Lakewood IPA in Los Angeles, Orange County's Universakl Care Medical Group, the Sacramento region's Solano Regiona l Medical Group/Sutter Regional Medical Foundation, and from the San Diegp region. Only the Central Valley was shut out in the Bangasseaward category.