Table 1 Vermont Blueprint for Health Practice Variation in Demographics, Health Status, & Payer Mix – Adult Population, CY2014
From: Risk-adjustment methods for all-payer comparative performance reporting in Vermont
Metric | Patient-Level Variation (N = 283153) | Practice-Level Variation (N = 102) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Mean | SD | CV | Median | IQR (25%) | IQR (75%) | Min. | Max. | |
Practice Size | N/A | 2699.7 | 2010.2 | 74.5 | 2233.0 | 1272 | 3578 | 352 | 10756 |
Age (in Years) | 50.0 | 52.0 | 5.1 | 9.8 | 51.7 | 49.1 | 53.5 | 40.1 | 67.7 |
Gender = Male | 45.1% | 44.9% | 7.1% | 15.9 | 46.1% | 42.3% | 48.7% | 9.3% | 58.6% |
Clinical Risk Group | |||||||||
Healthy | Reference group | ||||||||
Acute/Minor | 19.9% | 19.7% | 2.5% | 12.5 | 19.8% | 18.3% | 21.1% | 13.2% | 26.2% |
Chronic | 24.1% | 24.8% | 3.9% | 15.5 | 25.0% | 22.5% | 27.0% | 14.5% | 35.4% |
Significant chronic | 12.4% | 13.4% | 5.7% | 42.4 | 12.5% | 9.7% | 15.0% | 2.1% | 36.3% |
Cancer or catastrophic | 1.4% | 1.5% | 0.7% | 43.5 | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 4.3% |
Targeted chronic conditions | 43.9% | 44.8% | 8.0% | 17.8 | 44.9% | 39.7% | 49.9% | 17.6% | 65.5% |
Maternity | 1.6% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 81.6 | 1.3% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.0% | 10.8% |
Medicaid | 18.8% | 19.0% | 9.1% | 48.1 | 18.4% | 13.0% | 25.7% | 1.0% | 47.6% |
Special Medicaid services | 3.8% | 3.6% | 2.4% | 67.0 | 3.2% | 2.2% | 4.9% | 0.0% | 14.9% |
Medicare | 26.3% | 29.2% | 11.2% | 38.3 | 28.8% | 23.9% | 34.3% | 0.0% | 63.3% |
Medicare dual eligible | 6.3% | 6.8% | 3.3% | 48.3 | 6.9% | 4.6% | 8.9% | 0.0% | 15.1% |
Medicare disabled | 6.8% | 7.2% | 3.1% | 43.6 | 7.0% | 5.2% | 9.0% | 0.0% | 15.9% |
Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.09% | 109.3 | 0.06% | 0.00% | 0.11% | 0.00% | 0.48% |