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, managing costs, eliminating errors and improving health outcomes:
- Close to $10 million saved in 2009 through the appropriate use of high- and low-tech radiology services.
- Reduced complications following bariatric surgery 24 percent.
- Successfully reduced radiation exposure by 53 percent for patients undergoing cardiac CT angiography – without any reduction in image quality.
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.
- The long-term approach ensures quality and validity of best practices.
- The majority of hospitals and more than 8,800 physicians in Michigan participate.
- 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 website, or contact us for more information on any of our initiatives.