Q Award Winners 2009

We are pleased to congratulate the first inaugural Q Award Winners, who were recognized as top clinic performers in their specialty for Affordable Medications, based on data from Quest’s 2nd Quarter 2009 Generic Prescribing Report.

 

Top OB Performer: Pekin Family Practice SC
Angel Atkins (left) accepts the award.

 

Top ENT Performer: Methodist Medical Group at Pekin
Dr. Christopher Von Hake (left) accepts the award.

 

Top Pediatrics Performer: Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Physicians, Mattoon
Dr. Onkar Sharma (left) accepts the award.

 

Top Cardiology Performer: Cardiac Surgery Associates, Urbana
Tammy Walsh (right) accepts the award.

 

Top Primary Care Performer: Carle Clinic on Mattis, Champaign
Drs. Karen Eisenmenger and Kevin Kirby (left) accept the award.

 

Top Behavioral Health Performer: Behavioral Health Services, Mattoon
Dr. Elbert Lee (right) accepts the award.

 

Top Orthopedic Performer: Graham Medical Group, Canton
Dr. Brett Barnhart (left) accepts the award.

The practices highlighted here have the highest generic prescribing rate across 7 counties in central Illinois. An overview of our 2nd quarter 2009 data is below:

Methodology

This measure includes all prescriptions for members with a Caterpillar, HCH, Health Alliance or PersonalCare of IL health plan and employees of Methodist Medical Group drug benefit filled between April 1, 2009 and June 30, 2009. The Generic Prescribing Report includes prescribers located in Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Fulton, Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford counties. Generic drugs were defined by Medispan, a national drug database company (www.medispan.com)—at the time of claims processing.

Regional Rate

Total Prescriptions: 680,111
Total Generic Drug Prescriptions: 485,890
Regional Generic Drug Use Rate: 71.4%

We continue to work on increasing the region’s generic prescribing rate to 80% by 2010. Our most recent report is available by clicking here (include link to 2nd quarter 2009 Generic Prescribing Report. Thanks to our Q Award Winners for helping get better patient outcomes by making medications more affordable to their patients.