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Discontinuation of the Physician Quality Measure and Blue Physician Recognition programs

October 3, 2016

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), an association of independent Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® plans, recently announced that the Physician Quality Measure as well as the Blue Physician Recognition programs will come to an end. Effective February 1, 2017, this information will no longer be displayed on our Find a Doctor/Hospital tool.

In the August 2016 edition of Partners in Health UpdateSM, we advised that updated physician ratings for the Physician Quality Measure program would be submitted to the BCBSA later this year. Providers were encouraged to contact their Network Coordinator to review their scores before they would be displayed. However, due to the discontinuation of the program, the updated rankings will not be displayed. Both the Physician Quality Measures and the Blue Physician Recognition logo were recently removed from the BCBSA?s National Doctor and Hospital Finder.

Please note that your current Physician Quality Measure rankings and the Blue Physician Recognition logos will remain on display within our Find a Doctor/Hospital tool through January 2017.

If you have any questions, please contact your Network Coordinator.


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