With more than 3,017 physicians and 994 groups participating in Michigan, Share has slowly seen physicians move from skepticism, to acceptance and advocacy, to patient care improvements, and now to real cost savings.
During the first three years of the program, Blue Cross has documented $155 million in savings by avoiding hospital admissions and readmissions, emergency department visits, and through increased generic drug use and less reliance on expensive radiologic studies, according to a study in the July 5 Health Services Research Journal.