Blueprint for Affordability balances the financial responsibility for managing the cost and quality of health care. It’s an agreement where physician organizations and health systems aim to manage their patients’ health and lower their total cost of care.

When providers are successful, they share in the savings generated. And they’ll share in the financial cost when they don’t succeed.

Blueprint for Affordability builds on our 15 years of successful collaboration with Michigan physicians and hospitals that has improved the way health care is delivered. Providers in these Value Partnerships programs have offered the right care at the right time to:

• Reduce unnecessary ER visits.
• Avoid repeated testing.
• Reduce complications.
• Coordinate patient care to prevent repeat trips to the hospital.

These efforts improve care outcomes and save money: $2.2 billion in Michigan so far.

But even with these results, it’s not enough. Our members are wallet-weary. Our customers are asking for relief.

So, we’re pushing further. Blueprint for Affordability combines health care quality, efficiency and coordination to reduce the cost of care.

Health systems and physician organizations are stepping forward to join us in this effort, because they know this is a better way.

It’s a forward push. A bold new approach to goals we all share:

Healthier people. Lower cost. Affordable coverage.