Academy/AAOE Benchmarking Survey
| Now accepting fiscal 2007 data |
What is the Benchmarking Survey?
A web-based survey to help you measure practice efficiency. |  |
Why Participate? - In the face of the Baby Boomer onslaught you need to make sure you are operating efficiently in comparison to your peers.
- Survey has been designed to ensure the privacy and security of the data you submit - Review Academy Terms of Service & Privacy Policy (PDF 60K) for details.
- The greater the participation, the more specific the reporting functions.
- Statistically reliable and comprehensive data will help the Academy in its advocacy endeavors.
Getting Started
3 Steps to Participate
- Practice Registration - Make sure you are eligible to participate in the survey (details below) and then log in with your Academy/AAOE username and password. Note: If you registered for FY 2006, you do NOT need to register for FY 2007, your demographic data has been saved.
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• 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.
- Practice Data Entry - Once have registered your practice, you may now enter your practice data. 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.
• Review 2007 Data elements and definitions used
• Enter fiscal 2007 data
Please note: You cannot correct your data once you have been notified you can proceed to the Reporting Page.
- Aggregate data and reporting tools – Members will be notified when submitted data has been approved
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
- Allow 7 – 10 business days for data approval
- If you receive a query about your data, you will need to correct and resubmit your data as final before you will have access to the reporting tools.
2006 Reporting:
- Access the reporting tools 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.
Survey Eligibility
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) | > | Hospitals |
| > | Independent Practice Association (IPA) | > | Freestanding ambulatory surgery ctrs |
| > | Management Services Organization (MSO) | > | Medical school facility practice plans |
| > | Physician Practice Management Company (PPMC) | > | 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>>
