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
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
Blue Cross CQI model enables rapid, statewide COVID-19 response
When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Michigan, our health care community urgently responded. As people flooded emergency departments and hospital ICUs filled up, medical professionals tried to understand how this strange new illness progressed, and how to best treat those suffering with it. COVID-19 is a “novel” coronavirus, meaning it is a new strain not […]
PHYSICIAN GROUP INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Blue Cross leverages longstanding statewide collaborations to facilitate COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging the speed and resiliency of many health organizations as situations and protocols rapidly change. Because of the statewide collaborations already in place through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Value Partnerships platform, physician organizations and practices throughout the state have been able to connect and share vital information on patient […]
PHYSICIAN GROUP INCENTIVE PROGRAM, PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME
Access to substance use treatment boosted through statewide training programs
Despite the blizzard-like conditions, more than 60 emergency physicians and nurses from across Michigan traveled to Lansing in late February for a critical day of training. The eight-hour training session would enable them to screen patients for opioid use disorder and initiate medication assisted treatment (MAT) right in the emergency department, getting patients needed support […]