SCCIPA Recognized for Top Performance by IHA's Pay for Performance quality program

Awards for the past year were announced today at the annual P4P Stakeholders Meeting sponsored by IHA (Integrated Healthcare Association) in Los Angeles. SCCIPA received the award because of its high performance on important health care quality measures, including clinical quality and use of information technology to support patient management.

SCCIPA is managed by Pacific Partners Management Services, Inc. (PPMSI), a leader in managed care technology, which also develops and markets their web-based Access Express software to medical groups, health systems, HMOs and Medicare Advantage plans.

Pay for Performance awards are based on measurements of preventive and chronic care management, along with increased use of information technology to support patient care. Medical group and health plan data are collected and reported by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) based on clinical quality measures like preventive childhood immunizations and screening for breast, cervical and prostate cancer, as well as effective management of patients with asthma, high cholesterol and diabetes. Of 228 physician groups participating in IHA’s Pay for Performance (P4P) program, those that scored in the top 20 percent overall were selected for the honor, and included 46 top performers in eight regions, comprising 17 Northern and 29 Southern California groups.