The Value of a BHCAG Membership

Information

Information is power. And as a BHCAG member, you’ll get information on current health care issues and future trends. Our connections allow us to bring together decision makers, experts and data that will help you with long-term strategic planning, while addressing the practical issues that impact your health benefits today. Through our community dialogues and forums you’ll be educated on important issues and hear perspectives from employers, health plans and clinicians. You will become part of the solution.

 

Advocacy

BHCAG advocates for an efficient health care system that provides patients with the best care possible. We believe that when it comes to health care, more is not necessarily better. We believe that employers and individuals need a voice in this debate and BHCAG provides that. We understand that individual patients need the information, skills and tools to effectively manage their own participation in health care. And we have proven that, together, we have the voice, strength, bandwidth and political clout to influence health care reform from Minnesota all the way to Washington, D.C.

 

View our Membership and Milestones Brochure for more information.

Best Practices

Throughout our history, BHCAG has focused on providing value for all health care stakeholders, with a vision for infrastructure changes that have influenced national standards.

  • Health plan evaluation: BHCAG’s eValue8 initiative has become a national benchmark for evaluating the performance of health plans by using standard criteria for performance expectations.
  • Quality improvement: To reduce practice variation, BHCAG created the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, which has become a national model for the development of clinical guidelines.
  • Provider pay-for-performance: Through Minnesota Bridges to Excellence, BHCAG is shifting the focus from quantity of services delivered to quality of outcomes achieved. By providing financial incentives for specific clinical outcomes, BHCAG is motivating physicians to measure and report outcomes and to focus on implementing best practices to accelerate improvement.
  • Purchasing principles: As a founding member of the Smart Buy Alliance, BHCAG helped create the market’s prevailing bestpractice purchasing principles.