The Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) payment model is a blended model aimed at enhancing patient care while supporting primary care providers. Central to this model lies the effective management of patient panels, ensuring that physicians can deliver personalized, continuous care to their assigned patient populations.
Managing your patient panel efficiently is essential for delivering quality care and maintaining practice productivity in the LFP payment model. That’s why we’ve developed a quick reference guide to help physicians manage their patient panel in our EMR. In this guide, we provide practical insights and step-by-step instructions for optimizing patient panel management within OSCAR Pro. You can access and download the guide here.
What is Panel Management?
Panel management is a process of proactively managing a defined population of patients, using EMR (electronic medical record) data to identify and respond to patients’ chronic and preventative care needs. The concept is simple: better information about patients leads to better care for patients.
Benefits of Panel Management
An accurate panel means physicians can easily track billings, enhance workflows, foster better patient communication, and achieve a healthier work-life balance. Panel management helps physicians in:
- Enhancing patient care and workflow efficiency through optimized EMR processes.
- Identifying resource requirements to support doctors care for their patients.
- Informing and strategizing proactive and preventative care.
Phases of Panel Management
Empanelment assigns patients to individual primary care providers. Having an accurate list of active patients for each provider improves continuity of care and enables population-based care. Here are the three phases of panel management:
Panel clean-up: Involves creating registries that accurately reflect all patients with specific diagnoses and proper coding according to the correct ICD-9 code.
Panel optimization: Utilizes updated data to implement proactive care goals, leveraging decision support tools within the EMR for efficient and effective patient management.
Practice support: Coaches can provide guidance and assistance to physicians, offering manageable steps to optimize their EMR data throughout the panel management process.
Manage Your Patient Panel in Oscar Pro
Our guide empowers physicians to optimize patient panel management within OSCAR Pro:
Displaying Active Patients: Gain the ability to effortlessly access a list of active patients assigned to you, facilitating informed decision-making and personalized care delivery.
Removing Patients from Your Panel: Learn how to navigate the process of removing patients from your panel when necessary, ensuring accuracy and relevance in your patient records.
Identifying Patients Without a Primary Provider: Discover strategies for identifying patients who don’t have a designated primary provider, enabling you to address gaps and promote continuity for all patients.
Deactivating Patients Not Seen in X Year: Explore techniques for identifying and deactivating patients who have not received care within a specified timeframe, optimizing efficiency of your patient panel.
Managing Patient Status Options and Correct Entries: Learn best practices for managing patient status options and correcting any inaccuracies in patient entries.
The LFP payment model underscores the importance of effective patient panel management in enhancing patient care and supporting primary care providers. With OSCAR Pro’s tools and guidance, physicians can navigate panel management with ease, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and continuity in patient records while optimizing the efficiency of their practice.
Have questions on how to manage your patient panel? Contact us at help@oscarprodesk.ca today!
About OSCAR PRO
Oscar Pro is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline various aspects of medical practice management. Our EMR offers a range of features tailored to meet the needs of healthcare providers, from electronic medical records to appointment scheduling and billing.
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