title: Hospital organization, insurer collaborate.
abstract: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and the Illinois Hospital Association are leveraging their resources and collaborating on a quality improvement initiative designed to reduce the rates of hospital readmissions. The insurer has committed up to $1 million a year to help hospitals acquire the resources and staff to implement readmission reduction programs. The program promotes specific case management and discharge planning interventions designed to keep patients from being rehospitalized. Hospitals may choose to participate in any or all of an array of initiatives.
mesh_terms: D054598:Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007087:Illinois; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012954:Societies, Hospital