Healthcare Innovation January 21, 2022
Blue Cross, Institute for Healthcare Improvement have created an Equity Action Community with all 13 provider groups in its alternative quality contracts
Last year Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts became the first health plan in Massachusetts to announce it would incorporate equity measures into its contracts and payment programs with clinicians. Mark Friedberg, M.D., senior vice president, performance measurement and improvement at Blue Cross, recently gave a presentation hosted by the National Committee on Quality Assurance in which he described how Blue Cross is beginning to work with provider organizations to implement pay for equity.
Before describing the pay for equity work, Friedberg detailed how Blue Cross examined health disparities in its own data. The company reviewed 2019 administrative...
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