Modern Healthcare January 20, 2018
Health insurers at the forefront of using outcomes-based quality measures include such organizations as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and HealthPartners.
At the Louisiana Blues, a focus on outcome measures is a major component of its overall quality improvement strategy. The Baton Rouge-based payer is always looking for ways to harness measures that reflect how a patient’s health status is affected by healthcare services.
Its Quality Blue Primary Care program, launched in 2013, is designed to help the state’s primary-care doctors better care for and manage their patients with chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
A big part of the program’s success rests on the use of quality measures, particularly those focused on outcomes....
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