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In brief: End of public health emergency, unconscious bias training, Blueprint allocation
COVID-19 public health emergency ends. What now?
As you’ve read in our provider newsletters previously, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan enacted temporary measures to support health care providers and protect members during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the public health emergency has ended, effective May 11, 2023, you need to know which temporary measures are continuing and which have ended. Check out our Temporary changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic document. For more details, see this May Record article.
Unconscious bias training needed for Blue Distinction Centers for Maternity Care program
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has added an unconscious bias education requirement as part of our local plan criteria for the Blue Distinction® Centers for Maternity Care program. To be eligible for designation, with a Jan. 1, 2024, effective date, all physicians and certified nurse midwives (both hospital-based and those with hospital privileges) who deliver babies at the applicant facility must have completed unconscious bias education by June 1, 2023. To learn more, see this April Record article.
Blueprint allocation amount of 1.5% to go into effect July 1
In support of the transition from the fee-for-service model to value-based care, we’ll be introducing a 1.5% allocation from Blue Cross commercial (PPO) professional fees to fund Blueprint risk arrangements for our Blue Cross commercial providers, starting July 1, 2023. These risk arrangements will be partially offset by our annual professional fee schedule update that will also take place starting July 1. For more details, see this April Record article. |
