PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC Review

  The Most Important Data about PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC

In the briefest summary, PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC is a medical group with 145 professionals providing medical services at 17 locations. They cover 9 specialties.PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC is affiliated with 17 hospitals

National Provider Number (NPI):

5193900280

   What is this page all about?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") compiles and distributes more than 17 tables of data on medical professionals on a sporadic basis. Some of the tables contain more than a million records which makes it very difficult to manage them. There is a lot of information to pour through when trying to understand PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Ratings, Specialities Covered, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Physician Groups.)

   Specialties Covered by PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC

PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC includes medical professionals from 9 specialties

Specialty	Number
HOSPITALIST	2
NURSE PRACTITIONER	3
PEDIATRIC MEDICINE	3
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT	69
EMERGENCY MEDICINE	9
FAMILY PRACTICE	53
INTERNAL MEDICINE	10
GERIATRIC MEDICINE	1
PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION	1

   Ratings for PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC

When it comes to healthcare, patients want the best possible care and experience. Figuring this out and boiling it down to a few measures, can be difficult. The information below shows our best analysis. We review all of the the data from CMS. The information below summarizes the results of the most recent annual survey of health care providers called the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or "CAHPS" as well as data used for the calculation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System ("MIPS"). The most recent data for both of these datasets is calendar year 2021. According to the CMS website, the 2022 survey data is being finalized but they have not indicated when it will be publicly available.

CAHPS Survey Results

There is no information about the overall patient rating for PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC.

Measure	Percent of Patients Responding Positively
Getting Timely Care, Appointments, and Information	78%
How Well Providers Communicate	%
Health Promotion and Education	55%
Shared Decision Making	%
Care Coordination	87%
Courteous and Helpful Office Staff	%

MIPS Measures

Measure	Percent Compliance
Appropriate Testing for Pharyngitis	83%
Appropriate Treatment for Upper Respiratory Infection (URI)	98%
Consultation of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program	Yes
Controlling High Blood Pressure	25%
Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9%)	87%
Immunization Registry Reporting	Yes
ONC Direct Review Attestation	Yes
ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation	Yes
Participation in CAHPS or other supplemental questionnaire	Yes
Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow-Up Plan	78%
Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for High Blood Pressure and Follow-Up Documented	69%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	94%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	93%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	80%
Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information	83%
Query of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)	Yes
Security Risk Analysis	Yes
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Reconciling Health Information Exclusion	Yes
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information	6%
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting	Yes
e-Prescribing	89%

   PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC Office Locations

   Hospitals Affiliated with PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC

PATIENT FIRST PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL GROUP PLLC professionals work with these hospitals:

• ATRIUM HEALTH UNION
• CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER/BEHAV HEALTH
• CROZER CHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
• GEISINGER ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL
• GEISINGER-LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL
• LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
• LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL
• MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
• NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL
• PENN STATE HEALTH HOLY SPIRIT MEDICAL CENTER
• PENN STATE HEALTH ST. JOSEPH
• READING HOSPITAL
• ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL - MONROE CAMPUS
• ST LUKE'S WARREN HOSPITAL
• SUBURBAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
• UPMC CARLISLE
• UPMC PINNACLE HOSPITALS

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