Baseline Practice Characteristics on 181 Heart Health NOW Practices
| Characteristic | Valuea |
|---|---|
| Adequate hypertension control | |
| Patient-level, No. (%)b | 104,473 (61) |
| Top quartile control, No. (% controlled)c | 46 (>68) |
| Clinicians per clinic, mean No. (SD)d | 6.5 (8.5) |
| Office staff per clinic, mean No. (SD) | 9.4 (18.5) |
| Ownership structuree | |
| Physician owned, No. (%) | 77 (58) |
| Health or hospital system ownership, No. (%) | 56 (42) |
| Payer mixf | |
| Medicare, mean % | 29 |
| Medicaid, mean % | 16 |
| Commercial insurance, mean % | 29 |
| Uninsured, mean % | 12 |
| Clinician practice visits per day, mean No. | 21 |
| Practice type | |
| PCMH, No. (%) | 89 (61) |
| FQHC, No. (%) | 34 (30) |
| Rural, No. (%) | 19 (17) |
| Staff role of survey respondentsg | |
| Physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, No. (%) | 98 (14) |
| Nurse, medical assistant, No. (%) | 378 (54) |
| Billing, receptionist, office manager, No. (%) | 218 (31) |
FQHC = federally qualified health center; PCMH = patient-centered medical home.
Note: Total number of patients with hypertension among the practices = 171,570.
↵a Percentages and mean numbers listed may reflect rounding.
↵b Percentages represent patients that met adequate hypertension control among all the practices included in our analysis (last clinic blood pressure was <140/90 mm Hg).
↵c Primary care clinics among top quartile for adult adequate hypertension control.
↵d Practice size information was not available for 48 practices, and information displayed is among practices for which data were available.
↵e Practice ownership was not available for 43 practices and information displayed is among practices for which data were available.
↵f The total of payer mix values is 86% because 14% of the payer mix was dual or outside the payer categories described in Table 1.
↵g The total of subvalue is 99% because staff were able to specify more than 1 role (n=6).