Blue Cross Web Tool Helps Track Health Care Changes
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has launched an online tool that enables users to track changes in the state’s health care delivery system.
Financial and competitive pressures, in combination with new legislative and regulatory requirements, have spurred multiple mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations among the state’s hospitals and physician practices in recent years, according to a statement from the foundation.
The new website provides easy access to information about ownership relationships and major contracting relationships for the state’s acute care hospitals, hospital systems, medical groups, physician networks and community health centers.
"We developed this mapping tool in order to bring greater transparency to the evolution of the delivery system as providers work to implement state and national health care reform and accept new, alternative forms of payment," said Celeste Lee, the foundation’s interim president and senior director of grantmaking. "In addition to being of interest to policymakers, health care leaders, and journalists, delivery system changes have wide-ranging implications for patients and health insurance consumers who need to make well-informed choices about their care and coverage."
The link to the site is: http://bluecrossmafoundation.org/delivery-system-map/.
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