Table 2 Vermont Blueprint for Health Practice Variation in Demographics, Health Status, & Payer Mix – Pediatric Population, CY2014
From: Risk-adjustment methods for all-payer comparative performance reporting in Vermont
Metric | Patient Level (N = 78162) | Practice-Level Variation (N = 56) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Mean | SD | CV | Median | IQR (25%) | IQR (75%) | Min. | Max. | |
Practice size | NA | 1264.7 | 1109.7 | 87.7 | 880.5 | 455 | 1678 | 317 | 5303 |
Age (in years) | 9.1 | 9.4 | 0.8 | 8.4 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 10.1 | 7.7 | 11.1 |
Gender = Male | 51.2% | 51.0% | 2.4% | 4.8 | 51.1% | 49.6% | 52.8% | 44.9% | 55.4% |
Clinical risk groups | |||||||||
Healthy | Reference group | ||||||||
Acute/Minor | 15.8% | 16.1% | 2.1% | 12.7 | 16.1% | 15.0% | 17.4% | 10.9% | 21.0% |
Chronic | 8.8% | 8.6% | 2.1% | 24.5 | 8.3% | 7.2% | 9.6% | 5.0% | 16.6% |
Significant chronic | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 46.9 | 1.0% | 0.6% | 1.3% | 0.2% | 2.3% |
Cancer or catastrophic | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 92.4 | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.7% |
Targeted chronic conditions | 20.0% | 20.2% | 3.9% | 19.3 | 19.9% | 17.5% | 22.9% | 12.2% | 30.3% |
Medicaid | 53.8% | 54.3% | 15.0% | 27.7 | 56.6% | 43.6% | 64.8% | 24.8% | 82.9% |
Special Medicaid services | 18.1% | 18.3% | 6.4% | 35.2 | 18.3% | 13.2% | 22.0% | 6.9% | 33.4% |