Bingham Farms, MI, April 26, 2013 – United Physicians, Inc. (UP), and Beaumont Health System have created a clinical integration organization called Beaumont United Care Partners (BUCP). The new organization is designed to control health care costs and ensure patient care quality by enabling private physicians, United Physicians and Beaumont to work together in joint contracting and share incentive-based payments.

United Physicians is partnering with Altarum Institute to help curb unnecessary medical imaging as part of a federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) grant.

This three-year project will:

• Embed clinical guidelines in the image ordering process.
• Leverage health information exchange capabilities to increase awareness of past imaging results, and
• Use patient education campaigns to offset patient-induced demand for unnecessary imaging.

For this project, a High Tech Imaging Steering Committee (HiTiSC) was created to:

• Provide clinical oversight for the project, and
• Provide physician input into the guideline development process

POM ACO - 1,800 Michigan Doctors launch effort to improve health care for Medicare patients

Ann Arbor, MI, January 17, 2013 – More than 1,800 Michigan physicians will work together to tackle the challenge of providing better medical care and slowing the growth of health costs, in a new effort that will help them care for 81,000 of their Medicare-enrolled patients.

The new organization is a joint venture of the University of Michigan Health System and eight other Michigan physician organizations. Together, they have launched a new accountable care organization, or ACO, that includes members of nine large physician groups across the Lower Peninsula.

88 UNITED PHYSICIANS PRACTICES DESIGNATED AS BLUE CROSS PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOMES (PCMH)

Bingham Farms, MI, August 7, 2012 – United Physicians today announced that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has designated 88 United Physicians primary care practices representing 212 physicians as Patient-Centered Medical Homes.

BINGHAM FARMS, Mich. — The rising cost of healthcare is a topic of constant discussion. As our physician membership grows more introspective about the costs associated with practicing medicine, United Physicians addressed the debate over healthcare spending at the July 17th Physician Advocacy Cabinet (PAC) 3rd Quarter Leadership Meeting.