FPSC New Reporting Format

Quick Training Guide

Main Menu – Management Reports

Upon login, list of available reports appears on left-hand side of the screen

Report Descriptions -- at the bottom of the list of reports

Report Descriptions

Link to each report description now appears below list of Mgmt Reports

Selecting a report description causes the bullet point next to it to turn from blue to yellow.

Overview, Key Uses and other specifics of the E&M Analysis report now populate the screen.

Selecting a Report to View

Clicking the report from the main list automatically launches that report

Report opens with Default values

most recent quarter

All departments displayed

Mean selected as the comparison benchmark value

All available measures displayed by default

To view other reporting options

Expand folders from the dimension viewer

Subsequent folders represent finer and finer levels of detail. This is called “drilling down.”

Or, pull down from the dimension line. Expanding arrows on the right allow you to view lower levels.

Filtering – 3 different ways

1) Right-click from the dimension viewer and select “Filter”

2) Click the link on the report itself. The report automatically drills you down to the next level of your selection.

3) Pull down from the dimension line and select the value you want to filter on.

At a glance: Productivity Summary

Default Measures are Total Charges and Work RVUs

Benchmark: FPSC Mean, an average of all work rvus per assigned specialty across all participating universities

Reported CFTE: each individual physician equals 1 CFTE

Imputed CFTE: Work RVUs/Benchmark

Imputed to Reported: Reported CFTE/Imputed CFTE

FTE RVUs: Work RVUs/Reported CFTE

At a glance: E & M Analysis - TABULAR

Report filtered on Dept. of Ophthalmology

Default E&M Range: (99201-99205) OP Visits, New Patients

Total Encounters: Total CPTs billed

Encounter Distribution: same units as Total Encounters, reported as percentages

FPSC Mean: Encounter Distribution for all participating universities

Last column is a totals column

At a glance: E & M Analysis - GRAPH

Same as previous report with UCSF distribution charted against FPSC percentages

Graphic display allows for easy overcoding/undercoding analysis.

Because of the absence of actual units, caution should be used when interpreting results

E & M Analysis – Multiple Ranges and Graphs

The same report can be further amended to display multiple graphs per provider (left).

The tool’s flexibility allows a user to easily change the graphical display from lines to bars (bottom).

At a glance: Clinical Fingerprint

Broad procedure categories can be further broken down into more detailed CPT ranges. Here, the report was filtered on E&M codes and the displays the composite ranges that make up the E&M category.

Subtotals are provided for each specialty, code range and procedure category. A grand total for the department appears at the end of the report

**NOTE**: where FPSC Mean is 0.00 no benchmark exists for this specialty (see Bone Marrow Transplant left.) Departments may want to consider reassigning providers to more general specialties, though this is NOT recommended when the provider’s services are truly specialized. In these cases it may be better to wait for more participating universities to begin using the specialty assignment, after which benchmarks can be calculated by FPSC

At a glance: Trend Analysis

Simple trending by month

Filtered on Dept of Medicine

Since each physician equals one FTE, Total FTE RVUs = Total RVUs/Number of Physicians

Trend Analysis – view by Percentiles

Filtered on OBGYN

Columns have been replaced by the All Benchmark Values, allowing comparisons under different assumptions.

The Measure selected to benchmark was Work RVUs. Note how the Benchmark values change with each Percentile.

At a glance: Payer MixA split view provides a nice graphical interpretation along with underlying numbers.