Michigan P4P program given high grades; seven RWJF grantees honored.

Publication: HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement

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Since it's one of the oldest incentive programs in the country, it might not come as a big surprise that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was among seven Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Rewarding Results" grantees selected to highlight its successes in pay-for-performance programs during a National Press Club briefing on November 15 in Washington, DC. (See related story, page 7.), but the results it has have achieved to date are nonetheless impressive.

Consider the following:

* rates of patients receiving aspirin upon arrival were 95% at incentive hospitals, compared with 91% nationally and 90% for nonincentive hospitals;

* patients at discharge counseled to take aspirin were 96%, compared with 86% nationally and 85% non-incentive;

* patients receiving BETA blockers upon arrival were 93%, compared with 83% nationally and 80% non-incentive;

* patients prescribed BETA blockers at discharge were 96%, compared with 84% nationally and 80% for non-incentive;

* patients receiving a left ventricular function assessment (a determiner of blood flow through the heart) were 93% compared with 78% nationally and 75% at non-incentive hospitals;

* patients prescribed ACE inhibitors...

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