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3M™ Potentially Preventable Services (PPS)

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Identify potentially preventable high-cost ancillary services using powerful clinical grouping logic.The 3M™ Potentially Preventable Services (PPS) methodology helps identify high-cost ancillary services while generating actionable insights that can lower costs and decrease the use of low-value health care services.

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Reduces cost by improving quality of care

Reduces cost by improving quality of care

Overuse of imaging scans, diagnostic tests, specific procedures and other services has been well documented, exposing patients to unnecessary cost, inconvenience and risk. 3M PPS addresses the challenge by providing risk-adjusted and actionable data on the incidence and cost of overuse.

Careful, clinically defined risk adjustment

Careful, clinically defined risk adjustment

3M PPS compares services with diagnoses and performs risk adjustment based on the burden of illness in a patient population. It identifies providers and provider organizations with unusually high rates of ordering or providing potentially preventable services after considering differences in patient populations. In contrast, other approaches employ “all-or-nothing” rules that deny services or impose burdensome prior authorization, regardless of a provider’s past practices or patient population.

Comprehensive, evidence-based transparency

Comprehensive, evidence-based transparency

3M PPS applies to all patients regardless of payer. Identification of potentially preventable services relies on evidence-based guidelines. The logic is documented in a definitions manual available to any licensee. Licensees may choose to focus on specific types of potentially preventable services appropriate for their population.

Integrated with other Solventum methodologies

Integrated with other Solventum methodologies

The widely accepted 3M™ Clinical Risk Groups measures baseline population health status in comparing actual versus expected PPS rates. 3M PPS is one of the five 3M potentially preventable event methodologies that generate specific results for clinicians and health care managers to use in reducing cost and improving outcomes.

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