Symmetry® Procedure Episode Groups ®

New and Innovative 

Health care organizations face a growing need to measure the value of health care provided by specialty surgeons and accommodate their unique procedural focus in that assessment. This effort to define a consistent unit of measurement for surgeon specialists is built upon more than a decade of Symmetry^™ experience and enhances the performance measurement by:

• Including surgical procedures, workup, and post-procedural services
• Providing a simple method for comparing providers by clinical specialties
• Creating the data for sequence-of-care analysis

Unified Unit of Measurement for Surgical Procedures

PEG methodology uses carefully designed algorithms, based on clinical guidelines and a complete understanding of the complexity of medical claims data, to facilitate accurate identification and thorough development of complete procedure episodes.

Evaluate Clinical Specialists

One of the most important features of a tool that compares procedures is its ability to accurately assign procedure episodes to the clinical specialists who performed them. PEG uses a sophisticated system for ranking and identifying the responsible provider, who performed the procedure that defines the episode.

Part of the Symmetry Family

Symmetry has more than fifteen years' experience with case mix adjustment. As the newest member to the Symmetry family, PEG compliments the existing tools in the Symmetry Suite, providing better value-based measurement support to providers and offering a more complete solution in health care management. This unique tool for health care measurement and analysis' grouping technology is built upon Symmetry Episode Treatment Groups^® (ETG^®) and employs a methodology consistent with the Symmetry Suite products.