Summary Standards by Insurance Type

The following figures provide information on individual practices’ achievement within four insurance categories – Medicare (Figure 14a), Commercial (Figure 15a), Medicaid (Figure 16a) and Uninsured (Figure 17a). The figures summarize the achievement of each of 30 partner practices that use EMRs for measuring, reporting and improving their performance. Collectively, these practices report on 23,461 eligible diabetic patients, although the number of patients within each insurance category is necessarily smaller. Practices with fewer than 50 patients in an insurance category are not reported.

For each chart, we describe the percentage of each practice’s adults with diabetes who meet Better Health Greater Cleveland’s Summary Outcome Standard (left) or Summary Process Standard (right). As above, lists are sorted first alphabetically and then by rank order by Outcomes and Processes, respectively. The regional average within insurance type for each Summary Standard is identified at the top and bottom of each chart. Stars indicate practices falling in the top three (Medicare and Commercial) or top two (Medicaid and Uninsured) of the region’s EMR practices on each Summary Standard for that insurance category.

Figure 14a describes 27 practices’ achievement on their 8,754 Medicare patients. Three practices had fewer than the 50 Medicare patients required for reporting. Overall, 47% of our practices’ Medicare patients met our Summary Outcome Standard and 55% met our Summary Process Standard.


Figure 15a describes 27 practices’ achievement on their 11,941 commercially insured patients. Three practices had fewer than the 50 commercially insured patients required for reporting. Overall, 35% of our practices’ commercially insured patients met our Summary Outcome Standard and 38% met our Summary Process Standard.


Figure 16a describes eight practices’ achievement on their 1,317 patients insured by Medicaid. Twenty-two practices had fewer than the 50 patients insured by Medicaid required for reporting. Overall, 25% of our practices’ patients insured by Medicaid met our Summary Outcome Standard, and 49% met our Summary Process Standard.


Figure 17a describes 10 practices’ achievement on their 1,449 patients who were uninsured. Twenty practices had fewer than the 50 uninsured patients required for reporting. Overall, 27% of our practices’ uninsured patients met our Summary Outcome Standard and 47% met our Summary Process Standard.