Overview

The Patient Population section of the Physician Analyze Page of the Trella Health Marketscape makes you the expert on your selected physician's patients. These metrics are found under the Patient Population Tab.

Patient Volume - Historical counts of patients by several different criteria
Patient Locations - County - percentages of patient's by county of residence
Patient Diagnostic Mix - counts of patients in each Trella Health Diagnostic Group
Chronic Conditions - counts of the selected physician's patients with Cronic Conditions
Patient Age Metrics - Breakdown of patients by age

Each of these sets of data can be viewed as a table or as a chart.

Understanding the Metrics

Patient Volume Table

The Patient Volume table includes metrics on the patient population for the selected physician so you can gauge the physician's potential for being an influence with patients regarding home health treatment.

For more details about this table, see Patient Counts and Claim Types.

Medicare FFS Patients

Medicare FFS Patients is the count of distinct patients for which the selected physician filed a Part B claim during the most recent one year reporting period.

Home Health Patients (Overall)

This is the count of the selected physician’s distinct patients who were admitted to home health services during the reporting period. It is limited to patients who were counted under the three claim types, Patients Followed, Patients 3 Months Prior, and Last Claimed Patients. As such, it is a union of these three claim types, not a total, because a patient could be counted under more than one claim type.

Mortalities

This is the count of patients who died during the one-year reporting period who had been treated by the physician during the six month reference period prior to their date of death.

HHA Patients: Followed

This is the count of distinct patients who were admitted to home health services during the reporting period where the named physician is identified as the certifying physician on the home health claim.

HHA Patients: 3 Months Prior

Three Months Prior is the count of distinct patients where the named physician treated the patient in the 3 months prior to the patient's home health admission.

HHA Patients: Last Claimed

This metric is the number of distinct patients for whom the named physician submitted the last professional claim prior to the patient's home health admission.

Dual-Eligible Patients

Dual-Eligible Patients is a count of distinct Medicare FFS Patients treated by the physician who were eligible for Medicaid coverage during the specified quarter.

Patient Locations - County

The Patient Location - County table shows the percentage of patients treated by the selected physician within the two year reference period who resided in the listed county at the time their home health admission claim was filed. The two year reference period aligns with the end of the last quarter for the data set included in Marketscape.

The patient percentages in this table are calculated from all Medicare claims for the selected physician.

For the selected physician, this table contains the names of the counties and the percentage of patients for each county from the physician's total patient count.

Since these metrics are based on the patients' place of residence, it is possible to have counties from states other than the state of the physician's practice. This will be especially true for physicians who practice in smaller states or near state lines. For physicians who primarily examine clinical records, (X-rays, EKGs, etc.), there could be numerous counties from all over the country.

Patient Diagnostic Mix

This table breaks down the selected Physician's patients by the principle diagnosis indicated on the claim. For each diagnosis, we provide a total count and then we breakout the total count into acuity levels, low, medium, and high.

Trella Diagnostic Group

Each diagnostic category represents a collection of similar diagnoses that align with the diagnostic category name.

For more information on the Diagnostic categories used in the table, see Trella Health Diagnostic Categories.

Annual Patient Count

The numbers in this column represent the counts of patients treated by the selected physician within the previous two years with a principle diagnosis that falls within the Diagnostic Category in the listed row.

Low, Medium, or High Acuity

These three columns break out the counts for three levels of acuity. The number in each column is the count of low, medium, and high acuity patients with a diagnosis included in the diagnostic category listed.

For more information on the Diagnostic categories used in the table, see Trella Health Diagnostic Categories. For more information on how Trella Health assigns levels of acuity, see Trella Health Patient Acuity.

Chronic Conditions

This table contains the counts and percentages of the selected physician's patients diagnosed with the listed chronic conditions.

The listed percentages will not add up to 100%, since patients treated by the physician could be diagnosed with chronic conditions listed in more than one row.

Patient Age Metrics

The last two tables under the Patient Population tab provide age demographics.

Average Patient Age

The average age of patients treated by the selected physician with the state average age of patients for physicians with the same specialty for comparison.

Patient Age Groups

This table present the percentages of the selected physician's patients broken out by age.