Achieving Top 25% status for Medicare Advantage reported clinical measures
Desert Oasis Healthcare recognized as 4.5 Star provider organization
(March 13, 2023 – Palm Springs, CA) The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) recently announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC) is recognized as a 4.5 Star (of 5 Stars) provider organization in their Align. Measure. Perform. (AMP) Medicare Advantage program for measurement year (MY) 2021. Only 43 of 174 (25%) of participating provider organizations achieved this performance level in MY 2021.
The AMP Medicare Advantage program from IHA uses standard, publicly reported measures of healthcare, as prioritized by Medicare, to provide performance data. “These measures provide a means to compare the success of how each organization completes preventive health screenings, such as mammograms and colorectal cancer screenings, so that cancer is detected early when it is most successfully treated,” said Dr. Teresa Hodgkins, VP of Clinical Quality Initiatives at DOHC. “These measures also report how well patients are treated for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and COPD.”
In addition, Star measures provide assessments for how effectively an organization continues to coordinate care for their patients, following a hospital discharge or after pursuing treatment at an emergency room. “Each and every one of our 30,000 Senior patients/members, served under a variety of Medicare Advantage health plans, are important to us,” said Dr. Marc Hoffing, Medical Director at DOHC. “Our patient care teams work hard every day to provide the best for our members, so this recognition is particularly gratifying.”
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Desert Oasis Healthcare
About Desert Oasis Healthcare
Formed in 1981 as one of the first medical groups in the desert communities of southern California, Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC) continues to advance with changes in the healthcare market. DOHC provides primary and immediate care, home health, palliative care, clinical research studies and other services to more than 60,000 members/patients living in the greater Coachella Valley and the Morongo Basin of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The multidisciplinary and comprehensive care programs of DOHC are committed to educating individuals on preventive health care in their daily lives, reflected in the DOHC motto, "Your Health. Your Life. Our Passion." For more information, visit www.mydohc.com.
About IHA’s AMP Programs
IHA’s (Integrated Healthcare Association’s) Align. Measure. Perform. (AMP) programs use a fair and transparent approach to measurement and benchmarking to create a reliable assessment of performance for medical groups, and IPAs across health plans. The AMP programs are recognized nationally for partnering with organizations across California and the nation to drive meaningful changes that reduce costs and improve healthcare quality and outcomes. Paired with the insights from IHA’s California Regional Health Care Cost & Quality Atlas, the AMP programs help partners reduce the reporting burden for payers and providers by using a standard measure set to deliver objective data and analysis that support performance improvement. For more information, visit http://www.iha.org/.
