Value Partnerships featured in national ABIM Building Trust initiative

May 24, 2021

The Value Partnerships portfolio is featured as a trust-building practice in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Building Trust Initiative, launched this month. The initiative recognizes the importance of trust in health care as essential to better collaboration among health professionals and better health outcomes for patients. Through the BuildingTrust.org website, ABIM is sharing trust-building […]

Dramatic Rise in Telehealth Use Enabled by Blue Cross Incentives, Support

July 17, 2020

In a matter of weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic changed how we live, work and socialize. It has also drastically changed the way people receive health care services. As people put off care to avoid potential exposure at in-person office visits, HIPAA privacy rules were temporarily relaxed so that more health care providers could get access […]

Blue Cross leverages longstanding statewide collaborations to facilitate COVID-19 response

March 18, 2020

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 […]

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Knowledge is Power

November 21, 2018

Opioid overdoses have tripled in Michigan since 2012. Michigan ranks 10th in the nation for rates of prescribing opioids and 18th for overdose deaths.