- Describe your topic.
- Average Annual Cost per Patient, as a metric for measuring success of evidenced based protocols. Stratified by geography, race, social determinants of health, insurance, primary care provider or no, type of facility provider works out of (i.e., fqhcs).
- Describe why this topic is important.
- Delivering reduction in costs through the elimination of unnecessary utilization of care is how healthcare organizations bring value to its payers. The average cost per american was recently stated at $9,600 per american per year, the highest in the world. Understanding where costs are less is a great start to understanding the relationship between primary care, patient circumstance, and costs.
- Tell us why you are suggesting this topic.
- Better data on this metric allows us to advance a value based care system more quickly.
- Target Date.
- Describe what you are doing currently and what you are hoping will change because of a new evidence report.
- I operate health centers across rural and urban counties. I seek to understand our effectiveness in reducing unnecessary utilization of care and seek bench marking data as a means to that end.
- How will you or your group use the information from a new evidence report?
- We will compare the benchmarks with our own performance.
- How would you or your group plan to disseminate information from the report? Who would you plan to disseminate it to?
- Distribute to all federally qualified community health centers in Illinois and/or connected with the Illinois primary health care association.
- Do you know of organizations that could use an evidence report to change clinical practice? Are you a part of, or have you been in contact with, any organizations that might implement the research findings of an evidence report?
- Information About You: (optional)
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- Provide a description of your role or perspective.
- administrator / VP Operations / FQHC
- If you are you making a suggestion on behalf of an organization, please state the name of the organization.
- Please tell us how you heard about the Effective Health Care Program.
