Physician Enhancement Program (PEP)
Physician Enhancement Program (PEP)
What is the Physician Enhancement Program?
An on-site, practice and optional billing monitoring program designed to assist the practicing physician in attaining the highest standards of professional growth and clinical excellence. It provides longitudinal assessment, education, and practice-based improvement to participating physicians. The Medical Board of California recognizes PEP as an official alternative to having a practice monitor. The program is a minimum of one year.
The Physician Enhancement Program (PEP) includes the following components:
The PEP faculty mentor will review your professional growth and development using the comprehensive PACE Intake instrument and other measures of continuing education, health behaviors, lifestyle variables and other factors that may affect performance.
PEP Frequently Asked Questions
- Print and complete the PDF application for PEP, and email, fax or mail it to us.
- Once your application is received, you will be emailed several intake forms to complete for official enrollment.
- To process your application, we require a $350 non-refundable application fee. After we process your application, we will determine the annual cost of your participation in PEP based on your specialty. This ranges from $15,500 for an Internal Medicine physician to $38,750 for an Orthopedic Spine Surgeon.
- The program is a minimum of one year. The duration of PEP is typically the length of your medical board assigned probation. Please refer to your medical board probation order for more information on the duration of your PEP requirement.
- The program requires monthly chart audits by your mentor and monthly phone calls/Zoom meetings to go over their monthly findings.
- There will be 1-2 in person site visits in which your assigned mentor will travel you your site practice(s).
- Reports will be issued to the referring 3rd party (e.g. medical board, hospital, medical group, employer etc.) on a quarterly basis, typically January, April, July and October.
- Reports are issued to the referring 3rd party. Participants will not receive reports directly from PACE in most cases.
- Yes! PACE is happy to offer billing monitoring in addition to practice monitoring or as a stand-alone service.