BCBSM Health Care Quality Efforts with Hospitals

Source: BCBSM You Tube Channel - Over a three-year period, four programs sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to improve the quality of common medical procedures performed in Michigan hospitals have produced $232.8 million in health care cost savings and have lowered complication and mortality rates for thousands of patients. The results of these four Collaborative Quality Initiatives -- covering general surgery, bariatric surgery, angioplasty and cardiac surgery -- were announced by BCBSM along with the physician leaders directing the work. BCBSM's collaborative programs include more than 70 Michigan hospitals.

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