Do physicians have an opportunity to confirm or correct their performance results?
• Yes, physicians who received quality performance reports are encouraged to validate their scores. The 2010 Physician Performance Reports which are mailed to each physician with reportable results, will include information for physicians to go online to confirm or correct their patient-level results. Return to top 14. How are patients attributed to a physician? Each patient who is eligible for a measure is attributed to the physician(s) of the designated specialties based on the number of ambulatory evaluation and management visit during the time specified for that measure. Relevant specialties are designated for each quality measure. Primary care physicians A patient is attributed to the single primary care physician who that patient saw most frequently during a 24-month period – the measurement year and the prior year. Primary care must be one of the relevant specialties for a given measure to attribute a patient to the primary care physician. A PPO patient must have had a minimum o
