Michigan

The Michigan Primary Care Transformation Project (MiPCT) is one of the oldest and longest-running multi-payer initiatives for patient-centered medical homes (PCMH). It was developed in 2010 as a multi-payer initiative to test the value of the PCMH model of care.  In July 2013, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the largest commercial payer in the program, reported savings of $155 million over the first three years of the program. Building on this success Michigan has made plans to expand their network of PCMH's as the foundation for their statewide health care improvement efforts. In January 2014, the Michigan Governor's Office submitted the Blueprint for Health Innovation, Michigan's State Health Care Innovation Plan.  The six foundation components for the Blueprint include:

  • Patient-centered medical homes 
  • Provide care coordination to improve health care outcomes for individauls requiring intensive support services
  • Community health innovation regions to improve population health
  • Improve systems of care
  • System improvements to reduce administrative complexity
  • Contain health care costs and shift to value-based payment models

The Blueprint proposes to develop Accountable Systems of Care comprised of medical homes, specialists and hospitals with the capacity to integrate clinical care across settings. On December 30, 2013, CMS granted approval for Michigan to amend its Healthy Michigan 1115 demonstration waiver to implement Medicaid expansion to all adults with incomes up to and including 138% of the Federal Poverty Level beginning on April 1, 2014.  

CHIPRA: 
No
MAPCP: 
Yes
Dual Eligible: 
Yes
2703 Health Home: 
Yes
CPCi: 
Yes
SIM Awards: 
Yes
PCMH in QHP: 
No
Legislative PCMH Initiative: 
No
Private Payer Program: 
Yes
State Facts: 
Population:
9,848,100
Uninsured Population:
11%
Total Medicaid Spending FY 2013: 
$12.4 Billion 
Overweight/Obese Adults:
66.2%
Poor Mental Health among Adults: 
35.9%
Medicaid Expansion: 
Yes 
CPC+: 
CPC+

Henry Ford Pediatrics New Center One

Practice Type: 
Primary care practice
Practice Setting: 
Urban
Practice Address: 
New Center One, 3031 W Grand Blvd
Detroit, MI 48202

Child Health Care Clinic

Practice Type: 
Primary care practice
Practice Setting: 
Urban
Practice Address: 
788 Service Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824

PTN - Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network

The Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network (also referred to as the Trustees of Indiana University) will provide technical assistance support to help equip clinicians in the Midwest with tools, information, and network support needed to improve quality of care, increase patients’ access to information, and spend health care dollars more wisely. The Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network (GLPTN) is a three-state collaborative (Indiana, Illinois and Michigan) partnered with over 30 organizations.

BCBSM aims to include pharmacists in PCMH care teams

A new initiative from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan aims to create an environment where pharmacists from otherwise competing physician organizations and practice units have a non-competitive forum to collaborate on best practices and share ideas. 

The initiative would facilitate the coordination of pharmacy care into the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practice, by piloting an initiative that integrates clinical pharmacists with physician practices across the state.

News Author: 
Tracey Walker

Patient-centered medical home improves care, cuts costs

Michigan employers who shoulder health care expenses for their workforce are optimistic that a new patient care model is helping to transform health care delivery in Michigan.

Corporations and small-business owners should continue to push for the model's implementation to help bring down costs.

News Author: 
Jeffrey Brasie

Michigan ACOs reaping millions in savings for Medicare

Michigan's 12 accountable care organizations fared better than national averages in saving Medicare money, generating profits of their own and improving quality, according to data for 2014 from theCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services and interviews with ACO executives.

News Author: 
Jay Greene

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Value Partnerships program has transformed the state’s health care landscape, saved $1.4 billion

Over the last 10 years, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, together with hospitals, physicians and care providers across the state, have collaboratively improved clinical quality, efficiency and health outcomes, saved lives and directly prevented $1.4 billion in health expenses.

Health insurance premiums moderate — even decline — after years of steep increases

After years of steadily rising rates for employee health coverage, small employers may finally get a little relief this year and next from the steep increases of the past.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Priority Health and others propose to trim premiums for health policies that renew in the third and fourth quarters of 2015 or on Jan. 1, 2016.

News Author: 
Mark Sanchez

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan makes downward adjustment to small employer rates for remainder of 2015 and projects favorable rates into 2016

 Small group customers of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will benefit from a downward rate adjustment to be filed by BCBSM with state regulators this week. Rates for employers renewing coverage in the third and fourth quarters of 2015 will be, on average, 3.3 percent lower for BCBSM customers, and less than 1 percent higher (0.8 percent) for Blue Care Network customers, pending state regulatory approval.

Advocates push for direct primary care model as solution to rising health care costs

Family physician John Blanchard, M.D., has been pushing the direct primary care service concept of concierge medicine for more than 14 years through his Premier Private Physicians PLC office in Troy.

News Author: 
Jay Greene

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