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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 ...

January 14, 2025   ACO/Value-Based Care Best Practices 1. ... Primary Care Access 24/7 access to PCP or clinical decision maker is required. Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) Great opportunity to do risk and safety assessment, close gaps in care, and code and document chronic conditions (HCC Coding) Provide same-day access or direct provider communication with patients with acute conditions to reduce unnecessary utilization of urgent care and ED visits. Provide direction to patient on how to seek care a...

December 3, 2024   MPP KEY STAFF MEETING McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) provides Virtual Key Staff presentations quarterly. Please join us for our next live webinar: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 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: Out of The Box Thinking: Best Practices Tiffany Francis: Quality Updates including Advantasure Changes Ashley West: Patient Experience MPP Care Coordina...

November 12, 2024   Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)   CGM provides detailed information about glucose variability and time spent in target ranges, which A1C alone does not capture. The preferred number of days of CGM has been determined as a minimum of 14 days of data with 70% sensor wear to generate an accurate report.   Key Terms: GMI (Glucose Management Indicator) – An estimate of blood glucose control as reflected by what A1c level might be expected based on the patient’s average ...

November 5, 2024   Cerner CareTrak Updates   On October 1 st McLaren Physician Partners (MPP) fully integrated Persivia CareTrak into Cerner for primary care providers.   We have received provider feedback on the application and have made the following updates: Increased the size of the CareTrak component on the MPage for easier viewing on laptops Added the Caretrak component to the Outpatient Workflow MPage, allowing for viewing within the ambulatory provider workflow In addition, we con...