A recent press release from Premier Inc. reviews their analysis of primary care clinics.
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on Premier's website.
In a new analysis of primary care clinics, Premier Inc. identified wide variation in staffing model composition, performance and costs. Premier® also found that skill mix is not necessarily a predictor of provider productivity. These unique insights can help primary care practices optimize their staffing models to improve costs and productivity in the transition from fee-for-service to value-based payment.
The analysis and opportunities for improvement were published in Premier’s latest Ready, Risk, Reward white paper titled “Optimizing Primary Care Model Design to Improve Performance". Using its robust database of detailed physician practice information, which includes more than 30,000 clinicians, Premier benchmarked 2018 data from 257 family medicine and primary care practices. The analysis found that medical assistant (MA)-only staffing models may be the most cost-effective option for practices that are fee-for-service revenue based. There was no correlation to higher levels of productivity in practices with a richer skill mix. It also found that practices operating in the upper range of productivity were more likely to have more support staff per provider. Click here to continue>>
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