This case targets the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to deliver less expensive, top quality medical care. Under the AQC, offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, suppliers received a fixed-dollar budget to cover all care provided to a specific patient population, as well as incentive payments for quality.
Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization Case Study Solution
The AQC was piloted in 2009 by a handful of supplier organizations, including a group of doctors belonging to the Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization (LGPHO). The case describes the LGPHO doctors' encounter during their initial couple of years under the AQC, enabling pupils to gauge the group's performance along with potential challenges in the remaining three years of the contract and future contracts and the AQC's value as portion of the option to untenably high U.S. health care costs.
PUBLICATION DATE: November 07, 2011 PRODUCT #: 612016-PDF-ENG
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