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MPP has been operating a Clinical Integration (CI) Program, which includes an MPP Payment Distribution Methodology, with a goal of improving physicians revenue streams by rewarding providers for providing high-quality, evidenced-based, patient-centric, and cost-effective care. In 2021 changes to our CI Scorecard and Payment Distribution Methodology were needed and the CI scorecards are now focused on Commercial and Medicare Advantage plan performance. Highlights of these changes include: Removal of the ...

Preventive medicine has the potential to save lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “if everyone in the United States received recommended clinical preventive care, more than 100,000 lives could be saved each year.” The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is a preventive care visit introduced in 2011, as part of the Affordable Care Act, provided without cost to beneficiaries.  The Medicare program introduced the annual wellness visit to improve healthy aging among all...

**Reminder if you have not registered or attended one of the 2021  MPP Clinical Integration Methodology Webinars please register.** MPP successfully mailed our 2021 Clinical Integration (CI) Methodology to on December 30, 2020. All physicians received the Methodology letter and QR code to access the methodology description and an example of each of the scorecards.    Updates for 2021: NEW Pediatric scorecard. NEW Population metrics for PCP’s and Pediatricians Removal of ACO (AWV, TOC, HCC...

MPP successfully mailed our 2021 Clinical Integration (CI) Methodology to on December 30, 2020. All physicians received the Methodology letter and QR code to access the methodology description and an example of each of the scorecards.    Updates for 2021: NEW Pediatric scorecard. NEW Population metrics for PCP’s and Pediatricians Removal of ACO (AWV, TOC, HCC) metrics for PCP’s NEW Key Conversation Metric for all physicians We want to help you succeed, MPP Quality team is hosting six webinars ...

McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) quality team will be hosting a Key Staff meeting. Please join us Thursday, January 28, 2021 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm for our live webinar presentation. Please invite available staff that would benefit from the information presented. It is very important for both Key Staff members and Physicians to attend this webinar. We want to hear from you on how MPP can assist your offices during these uncertain times.  Topics to be discussed include: New Population Health Platform...

As a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Molina has recognized that its plan members have deferred or avoided seeking in-person medical care, thus resulting in reduced utilization for Medicare Covered Services for the 2020 calendar year. Molina understands this is potentially causing practices a financial hardship and will be making an interim lump sum payment to contracted physician groups in MPP based on Medicare claims. Molina will be distributing checks, totaling $556,900 , to those pract...

McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) is pleased to announce the release of the MPP Clinical Integration Payment 1 of 2 for 2020. This payment is based on physician performance on quality measures and value- based payments received from February to July 2020. In response to the financial difficulties our providers are enduring in 2020 due to COVID-19, MPP has waived the 10 point requirement on the Quality Metric Composite measure to be eligible for a payment and all PCPs scoring 55 points or greater are elig...

Our ACO, the McLaren High Performance Network, LLC. (MHPN), recently shared its success during the 2019 performance year, achieving a total savings of $37 million and shared savings of over $17 million. Despite these results being in the top ten nationally, we still have an opportunity to improve our clinical and financial performance in our shared savings contracts with CMS (ACO and Bundle Payments) as well as our shared savings contracts with commercial payors (Medicare Advantage). One area in need of...

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance is important to you and your practice to avoid a negative payment adjust from Medicare. Important Deadlines: December 31, 2020:  Promoting Interoperability Hardship Applications due March 31, 2021: MIPS data submission ends There are two free resources available to you: The QPP Resource Center® for the Midwest web portal is a source for the education and resources you need to be successful under this new Medicare payment program. The Resource ...

MPP is pleased to announce a new Value Based Contract has been signed with AETNA for their Medicare Advantage insurance product encompassing all McLaren regions in Michigan. This new product offers provider gain sharing based on attaining quality and cost of care performance metrics. Our current agreement now includes all McLaren hospitals and all active McLaren Medical Group providers in the following regions: McLaren Bay McLaren Bay Special Care (LTACH) McLaren Caro McLaren Central McLaren Flint McLar...