VALUE PARTNERSHIPS: IMPACT
Cost Avoided Over Last Decade
85% of Blue Cross Primary Care Providers
Collaborative Quality Initiative Presentations in Over 30 Countries
VALUE PARTNERSHIPS: THE LATEST
PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME, HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE, COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
Making Michigan Health Care Safer, Better and More Effective
National Healthcare Quality Week is a time to recognize the advances made among health care professionals and researchers toward improving health outcomes, including one of the nation’s largest, most successful quality collaborations right here in Michigan. Through the Value Partnerships portfolio of programs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has partnered with hospitals and physicians across the state in initiatives that have improved clinical quality, efficiency, and health outcomes; saved lives; and prevented over $2.2 billion in health expenses. “Nearly […]
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
For patients with heart disease, participation in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular readmission and death, and improved quality of life. Yet nationally the rate of referral to a cardiac rehab program after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has remained suboptimal; between 60 and 70 percent over the past […]
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
Lessons Learned from MI-COVID19 Initiative Influence Care & Treatment Protocols Statewide
As patients became seriously ill with COVID19 in the spring of 2020, emergency departments and hospitals around the state were quickly filling up. Yet, at the time, much was unknown about this virus and how to treat it. Fortunately, in Michigan, the Collaborative Quality Initiative structure offered a foundational process that quickly enabled hospitals statewide […]