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Sarah Seymour, RN, a caregiver on the hospital’s oncology unit (11 South), is the 2025 Margaret McLaren Nursing Excellence Award Winner.  McLaren Flint honored Sarah and 21 other nominees at a May 8 ceremony.  The excellence award is named after Margaret McLaren, RN, who served as Superintendent of McLaren General Hospital and its predecessor, the Women’s Hospital, for 27 years. When McLaren General Hospital opened in October 1951, the facility was named in her honor, making it the first hospi...

May 1, 2025 Clinical Integration Payment 2 for 2024   McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) is pleased to announce the release of the MPP Clinical Integration (CI) Payment 2 of 2 for 2024. MPP reengineered our payment processes to accelerate moving the June CI Payment 2 distribution to April. This payment is based on physician performance on cost and quality measures and includes value-based payments received from August 2024 to February 2025.   The total distribution amount is $3.4 million.  ...

April 29, 2025   United Health Care Contract with McLaren   MPP is pleased to announce a new systemwide agreement to expand participation with United Healthcare (UHC) for Medicare Advantage, DSNP and Medicaid. This is a system-wide agreement which includes all McLaren facilities and all active MPP providers.   The new contract with UHC is effective June 1, 2025 for Medicaid and October 1, 2025 for Medicare Advantage and DSNP. If you have previously signed an opt-in for UHC, you will be au...

April 24, 2025   BCBSM Specialist Value Based Reimbursement   MPP is pleased to announce the results of the 2025 BCBSM Specialist Value Based Reimbursement (VBR) program.  The Specialist VBR program was developed to reward specialists for performance in population healthcare delivery by participating in responsibility for the cost and quality of care of a shared population of patients. It rewards specialists to engage in the Patient Centered Medical Home Neighborhood (PCMH-N) and their co...

April 15, 2025   McLaren Physician Partners Introduces Homeward Health   In January 2025, BCBSM and Aetna retained Homeward Health to provide supplemental services to members in the rural health settings.MPP is currently working with Homeward, on your behalf, to identify patients who would benefit from these services.   What to expect from Homeward Health: Provides Community Health Workers to serve patients in rural communities in their homes Works with the patient’s PCP as part of the ca...

April 10, 2025   Revolutionizing Asthma Treatment: Implementing ICS-Based Reliever Therapies in Clinical Practice   Description: This live, virtual 1 hour Category I ACCME educational program, for primary care and specialty healthcare professionals, is intended to provide learners with an understanding of inhaled corticosteroid-based reliever therapeutic approaches for the management of adult asthma.   Background: β2 agonists like albuterol have been used for more than 50 years as the mai...

March 13, 2025   $ Clinical Integration Scorecard Vetting $ To improve the efficiency of our Clinical Integration Program distribution payments, MPP is asking all physicians to vet their individual CI scorecard available in Persivia.   For 2024 CI payment 2, which will be issued this Spring, the scorecard to be vetted is December 31, 2024, scorecard. Please sign in to Persivia to view your scorecard for accuracy as we want to ensure our physicians receive the appropriate credit for the work th...

February 27, 2025   MPP KEY STAFF MEETING McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) provides Virtual Key Staff presentations quarterly. Please join us for our next live webinar: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 12:00 PM Please invite any staff who would benefit from the information being presented. Best Practices and Topics to be discussed include : MPP Updates: Reflect, Refresh and Reset for the New Year Poly Pharmacy Metrics Community Resource: McLaren Virtual Care HCC Coding Tips Clinical Integration Scorecard ...

February 18, 2025   MPP SPRING 2025 PHYSICIAN UPDATE   McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) provides physician update presentations bi-annually in the Spring and Fall. Please join us for our live webinar: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 5:30 PM Whether you are a specialist or primary care physician our objective is to keep you abreast of what is happening in Population Health at the local and national levels and to answer any questions that you may have. Topics to be discussed include: Population Health ...

February 4, 2025   BCBSM High Value Referral Program MPP wants to make you aware of a new program rolled out by BCBSM (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan) in January 2025. This High Value Referral (HVR) incentive is a multi-year program aimed at transforming specialist referral patterns. BCBSM is offering financial incentives for Physician Organizations (PO’s) to develop and implement processes that enable PCPs to redirect referrals to higher-value specialty providers. MPP will be expected to work ...