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"My regular physician is very much a friend to me, so I feel comfortable going in and talking to her… I think that having that kind of relationship is very important for a person with diabetes or any disease. You need to trust your doctor, and trust yourself that you can ask questions."

‒ Elaine
Cleveland, OH

Did You Know?

The exact causes of both types of diabetes are unknown. Type 1 diabetes tends to show up after exposure to a trigger, such as a virus, which can attack cells in the pancreas that make insulin. There is no one cause for Type 2 diabetes, but it seems to run in families, and most people who get it are overweight.

Achievement in Medicare Patients

The tables that follow provide information on individual practice sites’ achievement on Better Health’s Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards by insurance category. The practices that are reported in each table include those for which we have measures for at least 50 patients of the given insurance type; thus, the number of sites reported will vary by insurance type. In addition, as described earlier, because our sampling of sites with paper-based records does not enable us to provide a confident estimate of achievement by insurance groupings, these sites are not included in the tables.

We separately report relevant practices’ achievement for patients covered by Medicare, for Commercially insured patients, for Medicaid patients, and for uninsured patients.

The tables on this page describe the achievement among Medicare patients for our 27 electronic medical records-based practices who cared for at least 50 Medicare patients with diabetes in July 2007 - June 2008.  As before, exceptional achievement is highlighted by stars.  

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Table 3a.  Achievement for MEDICARE patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 27 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 MEDICARE patients. 
Sorted alphabetically by practice. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System


 

Table 3b.  Achievement for MEDICARE patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 27 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 MEDICARE patients. 
Sorted alphabetically by system, then practice. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System



Table 3c.  Achievement for MEDICARE patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 27 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 MEDICARE patients. 
Sorted by Achievement on Outcomes standard. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System

 


Table 3d.  Achievement for MEDICARE patients on Composite Outcome and Care Process Standards for July 2007 - June 2008 for 27 EMR-based Practices with at least 50 MEDICARE patients. 
Sorted by Achievement on Care Processes standard. 
System codes: CC - Cleveland Clinic, KP - Kaiser Permanente, MH - The MetroHealth System