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August 2022

We’re updating our HEDIS and Star tip sheets for 2022

Each year, we update our HEDIS and Star measure tip sheets, which are then posted on the Clinical Quality area of our provider portal.

The Star tip sheets were updated and posted earlier this year on the Clinical Quality section of availity.com.** We recently made additional revisions to the following six:

  • Advanced Illness and Frailty Guide
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening (COL)
  • Hemoglobin A1c Control for Patients with Diabetes (HBD)
  • Statin Therapy for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease (SPC)
  • Statin use in persons with diabetes (SUPD)
  • Transitions of Care (TRC)

Virtual Care Summary
The Virtual Care Summary (previously known as the Telehealth Summary) has also been updated for 2022 and is available on the Clinical Quality section of availity.com.**

HEDIS tip sheets
Updates to our HEDIS® tip sheets are currently in process, and we’ll let you know as soon as they’re finalized and posted.

More about our tip sheets

  • HEDIS® tip sheets are developed to assist health care providers and their staff in efforts to improve overall health care quality and prevent or control diseases and chronic conditions. HEDIS® is one of the most widely used performance improvement tools in the U.S.
  • Star tip sheetshighlight select measures in the Medicare Star Ratings program. Most of the measures featured in our Star tip sheetsare also HEDIS measures.

Accessing the tip sheets
Tip sheets are housed on the Clinical Quality page of Availity. You can get there by following these steps:

  1. Log in to our provider portal (availity.com**).
  2. Click on Payer Spaces on the Availity menu bar.
  3. Click on the BCBSM and BCN logo.
  4. Click on Secure Provider Resources (Blue Cross and BCN) on the Resources tab.
  5. Click on Clinical Quality under the Member Care tab.

**Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan doesn’t own or control this website.

HEDIS®, which stands for Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, or NCQA.

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.

*CPT codes, descriptions and two-digit numeric modifiers only are copyright 2021 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofit corporations and
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