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Panel size can be influenced by the number of patients seen per day, the number of days the provider is available per year and the average number of visits per patient per year. For example, a provider who sees 20 patients per day, 210 days per year, with an average of three visits per patient per year, could manage a panel of 1,400 patients.
Just a few years ago, only a third of family physicians could estimate their panel size. 8 Now, perhaps because more physicians are employed, panels tend to be more clearly defined. Organizations often set a target panel size and expect physicians to manage their defined set of patients.
For example, if you have the capacity to provide 5,280 visits per year and your panel visit rate is 2.5 visits per patient per year, then your right-sized panel is 2,112 patients — or 1,584 patients if you have accounted for nonvisit work as described above.
Patients who have seen more than one provider are assigned to the provider they have seen most often. The remaining patients who have seen multiple providers the same number of times are assigned to the provider who performed their most recent physical or health check.
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Since the last two panel articles were published in FPM in 2007, 6 – 7 we have seen a reemergence of interest in the topic. However, the focus has shifted from estimating panel size (i.e., the specific set of patients for which a physician is responsible) to adjusting panel size for patient acuity and workload complexity.
Patient panels have to be both accurately attributed and right-sized. 4, 13 In this first step (attribution), each patient must be assigned to only one primary care physician or advanced practice provider (i.e., one clinician in a like category).
While attribution reveals the size of the current panel, right-sizing shows what it should be. Once you complete the four-cut method for patient attribution described above, you can then use the panel-size spreadsheet to compare your current panel to the right-sized panel.
The desire for panel adjustment relates to both patient visit acuity and nonvisit workload complexity. Acuity and complexity are euphemisms for more work. If the sum of visit and nonvisit workload is intolerable, the conclusion is that the panel is too large and requires adjustment. 4, 13 – 18
Physicians want a fair panel size where the time required to care for their patients is manageable, given their capacity to complete the work. Accurate methods for panel attribution and adjustments for patient acuity factors and nonvisit complexity must be used.
Establishing which patients are assigned to which physicians in the practice is important for a number of reasons:
Panel size is simply the number of individual patients under the care of a specific provider. Panel size is easiest to determine in practices that can use enrollment data to link patients to individual providers and capture that linkage in their information system. This is most feasible in “closed” systems, such as some HMOs.
Practices and individual providers should not take on more work than they can manage. If a panel is too large, the excess demand results in a never-ending and ever-expanding delay in services in addition to constant deflections to other providers, resulting in discontinuity.
There is a limit to practice and individual panel sizes. If a practice or individual provider keeps saying “yes” to new patients and exceeds the limit, the overage can initially be absorbed into a waiting time. However, patients' willingness to wait has a limit. At some point, patients quit.
Once a provider's individual panel has been identified and all strategies for adjusting the panel have been dutifully applied, it might be found that the provider is indeed “over-paneled.”
There is a limit to the number of patients each provider can effectively care for. That limit depends on the system in which the provider practices, but it can be defined using the methodology described in this article. Having an appropriate panel size is key to managing clinical workloads and optimizing patient access to care.