Physician Practice Information Survey

RUC Meeting – October 2, 2008

Physician Practice Information Survey

RUC Meeting – October 2, 2008

Survey Launched in 1st Qtr 2008

• Dmrkynetec mailed survey packets in three waves from late January through late March.

• All sample for each specialty (1,000 per specialty) was released by late March.

• More than 50,000 physicians received the survey packet.

• 100 interviewers began calling the first wave on January 31. All physicians should have received at least six phone calls to date. Some physicians have received as many as 15 calls.

Expectations

• 1,000 new completes by April 30.

• 3,000 completed surveys by August 31

• 4,000 completed surveys by October 31

• 100 useable completes per specialty (5,000 overall) by December 31, 2008

• PE/Hour computations to be delivered to CMS by March 31, 2009.

Responses - September 26

• Nearly 5,000 physicians have participated

• 611 useable completes from 2007 Gallup effort.

• 3,030 Dmrkynetec New Completes

• Total of 3,641 Completed Surveys

• Project is 62% Complete

Specialties with 100 + Completes

• Allergy and Immunology

• Anesthesiology

• Colon and Rectal Surgery

• Family Medicine

• Hand Surgery

• Internal Medicine

• Optometry

• Oral Surgery (Dentist only)

• Pediatrics

• Physical Therapy

• Podiatry

Specialties not likely to meet 100 completes (completes to date)

Note: Precision may be met with less than 100

• General Practice

• Geriatrics

• Interventional Radiology

• Nuclear Medicine

• Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy

• Reproductive Medicine

• Sleep Medicine

• Spine Surgery

Strategies to move other specialties to 100+ completes

• Additional sample mailed in September for 15 specialties

• E-mails/membership information – share with survey firm if policy allows

• Urge maximum communication throughout October and November

Communication

• The AMA has organized e-mail announcements from Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM), Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Practice Management Center (PMC)

• AMA organized uniform announcement used by each of these groups and the participating specialty societies

Communication

• January 21 edition of Advocacy Update

• January 22 edition of Federation News

• January 28-31, 5 day run in Morning Rounds

• January 28 - AMA Website - Headline Story

• March/April AMA Voice Article

• March 20 eVoice

• April 1 Federation Newsletter

Communication

• Specialty societies have been cooperative: websites, e-mails, newsletters, membership lists, etc.

• Need to ramp up communication again. We encourage broadcast e-mails and have distributed a new message to send out.

• Dmrkynetec has made more than 350,000 phone calls, 100,000 faxes, and thousands of e-mails (bi-weekly to available e-mails)

• AMA financed distribution of 40,000 postcards in June.

4th Quarter 2008

• We will continue to share progress reports on a weekly basis.

• Survey data collection will be completed by December 31.

• Survey firm is re-contacting physicians to provide missing responses and other clarification to maximum useable completes – more than 700 cleaned to date.