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
CDC highlights Michigan CQI response to COVID-19 antibiotic overuse
More than half of Michigan COVID-19 patients received unnecessary antibiotics in the early days of the pandemic, but that number decreased significantly due to a joint effort by the Michigan Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken notice and featured the CQI work in a national stewardship report, […]
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
Participants in the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) have improved patient safety through two important projects. First, physicians have reduced the number of opioid pills prescribed to patients following certain vascular surgeries. Second, they reduced radiation exposure during angioplasty procedures. In the first project, participating physicians saw the need and the […]
COLLABORATIVE QUALITY INITIATIVES
The Blue Cross cardiovascular consortium celebrates 25 years of improving patient outcomes
Twenty-five years ago, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan partnered with five hospitals to launch the percutaneous coronary intervention registry, a collaborative effort to improve quality, cost and outcomes of angioplasty procedures. Since then, the initiative has grown into a statewide consortium of nearly 50 hospitals and 600 physicians, now called BMC2 (Blue Cross Blue […]