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July 2013

Not in the Physician Group Incentive Program?
Here’s your chance to join

You have an opportunity to help change the face of health care in Michigan. Join Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Physician Group Incentive Program.

Known as PGIP, this innovative program is helping improve the quality, value and efficiency of health care in the state. It has been developed with input from physicians across Michigan and facilitates change through a wide variety of initiatives and rewards to physician organizations for improving health care delivery.

Applications for new participants are being accepted July 1 through Aug. 30, 2013.

Requirements
Physicians must join PGIP through a physician organization. To be eligible to join PGIP, each organization must:

  • Be a partnership, association, corporation, individual practice association or other legal entity with its own taxpayer identification number
  • Be able to receive and distribute income among its members
  • Be composed of 75 or more Blues participating physicians, with 50 of those physicians practicing as primary care providers (internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice or general practice)
  • Have contractual authority to represent its physicians for this program
  • Be able to coordinate and facilitate practice improvements and program administration on behalf of its member physicians

Physicians are limited to participation with only one physician organization for the purposes of PGIP.

To learn all about PGIP, visit the Physician Group Incentive Program section of our website and the Value Partnerships website or contact your provider consultant.

To apply

  • If you represent a physician organization and would like to complete an application to join PGIP, email the Value Partnerships staff at providerpartnerships@bcbsm.com.
  • If you are an individual practitioner with questions about participating in PGIP, contact your provider consultant.

Not sure who your provider consultant is? Go to the BCBSM Provider Contacts page and click on your region (Mid-Michigan, Southeast Michigan, Upper Peninsula or West Michigan).

We must receive completed applications by Friday, Aug. 30, 2013.

No portion of this publication may be copied without the express written permission of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, except that BCBSM participating health care providers may make copies for their personal use. In no event may any portion of this publication be copied or reprinted and used for commercial purposes by any party other than BCBSM.

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