Value Partnerships: Improving Health Care in Michigan

Value Partnerships is a collection of clinically oriented initiatives among Michigan physicians, hospitals and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan that are significantly impacting the quality of patient care across Michigan.

Through collaboration and data sharing, the initiatives are improving clinical quality, decreasing complications, decreasing costs, eliminating errors and improving health outcomes:

  • $13 million saved in one year by decreasing ventilator-assisted pneumonia by
    29 percent
  • Reduced blood transfusions following angioplasty by 30 percent
  • Reduced overall complications from surgery 37 percent in one year

As a result, we are fundamentally redesigning the health care system in Michigan.

Value Partnerships outshines all other clinical improvement efforts.

  • Competitors become collaborators, for the benefit of patients. Participating hospitals and physicians share data and best practices and learn from one another about how to improve health delivery.
  • Shared ownership over the goals and data creates empowerment and motivation to improve. Providers collaborate with the Michigan Blues to design the programs, and set the goals and data reporting models.
  • The long-term approach ensures quality and validity of best practices. Quality improvement initiatives are tracked, analyzed, shared and validated over the course of several years.
  • The majority of hospitals in Michigan participate – Eight Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQI) unite hospitals toward a better health care environment statewide.
  • More than 7,600 physicians in Michigan participate – The Physician Group Incentive Program (PGIP) is one of the largest and most effective collaborations nationally between physicians and a health plan.
  • Value Partnerships is a national model of innovative collaboration. These projects have earned national recognition for the open collaboration achieved among participating physicians, nurses, hospitals and health insurance companies.

Learn more by exploring our Web site, or contact us for more information on any of our initiatives.