Blue Cross finds savings from incentives - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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Patients of doctors who meet standards for efficiencies in practicse management received 12 percentfewert high-cost imaging tests, a BCBSNC analysis Those patients also visited the emergency room 34 percent less oftemn and were 24 percent less likely to see a specialist. As a resultf annual health care spending is less per patien t than forthe insurer’zs customer population as a whole. The study was completes at the conclusion ofthe company’s three-year pilotg for health care quality under the national Bridges to Excellence BCBSNC is looking for ways to expandf the concept of providing rewards and recognition to doctords who meet quality standards.
Since launching the pilot in 2006, the insuref and its partner, the State Healtu Plan for Teachers and State haspaid $4.2 million to participating The pilot included 194 physicians representing 41 practices who earnedf rewards for meeting at least one quality Counting all of the insurer’as network of doctors, regardless of whether they participate d in the pilot program, more than 970 had achievedx at least one quality standard as of When BCBSNC began the pilot, fewer than 100 physicians in the state were recognized as havinb met a standard.