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October 11th, 2007, 12:48 PM
We have had several requests for a listing of Doctor’s Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) eligible practices. The DOQ-IT project, which started in August 2005, recruited several hundred practices (see http://www.ipro.org/doqit). Enclosed are Medicare-based lists of eligible practices, that is a practice where at least forty percent of the physicians are in primary care, defined as a physician-specialty code designation of general medicine, internal medicine or family practice. There is a solo practice file and two group practice files. There is no specific identifying information for a practice. These files list primary care practice geographic locations by zip code, city or county and may be helpful in project planning.
Each row in the solo practice file represents a single, solo practice. The file lists what the specialty designation is of the practice and where the practice is located (zip code, city and county). The group practice files (upstate and downstate) list location (zip code, city and county), the practices’ group specialty designation and how many of the physicians in that practice were designated as primary care physicians using UPINs. UPINs, which now have been replaced by NPIs, are unique physician identifiers for Medicare billing.
These Medicare data are from Fall 2005. IPRO has cleaned the data within each file for duplicate entries by address. We have found that physicians in a group practice also billed Medicare using their solo UPIN as well as their group UPIN, so there is likely an overestimate of total physician numbers and actual independent practice sites.
Each row in the solo practice file represents a single, solo practice. The file lists what the specialty designation is of the practice and where the practice is located (zip code, city and county). The group practice files (upstate and downstate) list location (zip code, city and county), the practices’ group specialty designation and how many of the physicians in that practice were designated as primary care physicians using UPINs. UPINs, which now have been replaced by NPIs, are unique physician identifiers for Medicare billing.
These Medicare data are from Fall 2005. IPRO has cleaned the data within each file for duplicate entries by address. We have found that physicians in a group practice also billed Medicare using their solo UPIN as well as their group UPIN, so there is likely an overestimate of total physician numbers and actual independent practice sites.