Academy/AAOE Benchmarking Survey
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FY09 data collection will begin February 2010
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What is the Academy/AAOE Benchmarking Survey?
The Academy/AAOE Benchmarking Survey is a web-based survey to help you measure practice efficiency.
What types of practices are eligible to participate?
In order to complete this benchmarking survey and access the subsequent reporting tools, you must be reporting data for a medical practice. For this survey, we are defining a medical practice as a single legal entity or collection of legal entities consisting of one or more physicians who deliver health care services.
At this time, the following organizations may not complete the benchmarking survey: - Integrated Delivery System (IDS)
- Independent Practice Association (IPA)
- Management Services Organization (MSO)
- Physician Practice Management Company (PPMC)
- Hospitals
- Free Standing ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Medical school facility practice plans
- Medical school clinical science departments
- Any other type of organization that owns, manages, or provides services to medical practices
We intend to expand the benchmarking survey to other practice settings. For more information, please contact us
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Why should I participate?
Benchmarking is a critical tool to help practices measure efficiency and areas for improvement. The AAO/AAOE benchmarking project will give practices accurate information that will allow comparison to national averages. The baby boomers are beginning to retire which is expected to increase the demand for services in the coming years, and that will mean that practices will need to focus on operating at peak efficiency in order to handle the increased demand.
What is the deadline to participate?
Fiscal Year 09 data collection will begin in February 2010.
How do I get started?
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How do I submit my data?
Step 1: Practice Registration
Private ophthalmic medical practices are invited to participate in the Benchmarking Survey project sponsored by The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the American Academy of Ophthalmic Executives (AAOE).
Fiscal Year 2009 practice registration now open. Make sure you are eligible to participate in the survey and then log in with your Academy/AAOE username and password. Note: If you registered for FY06, FY07 or FY08, you do NOT need to register for FY09, your demographic data has been saved. Register Now
- In order to register you must enter your practice’s Federal Tax ID.
- Only ONE set of data is allowed per practice. Therefore ONLY one individual per practice should be designated as the authorized data entry person (respondent), and only one user-account will be issued by the Academy per practice.
Step 2: Practice Data Entry
Practice data reporting for Fiscal Year 09 will open February 2009.
Step 3: Reporting
How do I access and interpret the benchmarking data?
Once your data has been anonymously reviewed, and assuming no obvious errors have been identified, you will receive an approval e-mail with a link to the Reporting Tools. Practices that have approved data in FY06, FY07 and/or FY08 can access the benchmarking Reporting Tools: - To access the report, you will need to login using your Academy/AAOE login name/password and then enter the Benchmarking login name and password you created when you registered.
- Please note: Identifiers specific to your practice will be stripped from the final data set, and the number of data sets displayed in the reporting tools (either the complete aggregate set or any filtered set as defined by the user) must be equal to or greater than fifteen (15) complete data sets.
- Tools are provided to help you interpret your data.
- Reporting tools are only available to users whose data has been submitted as final and approved.
- For fiscal year 2008 reporting, expect to receive an e-mail notifying you that the database is finalized in early August 2009.
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I’ve reviewed the resources and still have questions. What support is available?
E-mail your question(s) to benchmarking@aao.org. We will respond within 5 business days.
What information is available to AAO/AAOE non-participants?
Links to the benchmarking survey general findings will be published to the benchmarking web page and sent to AAOE members in AAOE News and Academy members in Practice Management Pearls.
The following reports are now available: Media
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