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SUMMARY:Leveraging Equity Measures Part I and Part II
DESCRIPTION:About this On Demand Training\n\nCost: $269\nLeveraging 
 Equity Measures to Identify and Incentivize improvements in 
 Racial Inequities in Care Part I - OnDemandDuration: 1.25 
 hours\nBlue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) 
 shared the results of a new analysis of racial and ethnic 
 inequities in health care and became the first health plan 
 in Massachusetts to announce it will incorporate equity 
 measures — differences in the quality of care across 
 racial and ethnic groups — into its contracts and payment 
 programs with clinicians who care for Blue Cross members. In 
 preparation for equity-based payment incentives\, BCBSMA has 
 partnered with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement 
 (IHI) to convene an Equity Action Community to develop 
 equity-improving capabilities among providers and facilitate 
 collaboration among them.\nNCQA will host Dr. Mark 
 Friedberg\, Senior Vice President\, Performance Measurement & 
 Improvement at Blue Cross and Shannon Welch\, MPH\, Senior 
 Director at Institute for Healthcare Improvement\, for a 
 presentation on this groundbreaking work. Join faculty for 
 an overview of Blue Cross’ plan to address health inequity 
 and racial injustice\, results from the recently released 
 Health Equity Report and the launch of a new collaborative 
 intended to assist physicians and hospitals in improving 
 racial inequities in care.\n \nLeveraging Equity Measures 
 to Identify and Incentivize improvements in Racial 
 Inequities in Care Part II Live Webinar\, November 16\, 2022\, 
 at 12:00 pm ETDuration: 1 hour\n\nIn September 2021\, Blue 
 Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) began to 
 publicly share its analyses on racial and ethnic inequities 
 in health care experienced by members\, and became the first 
 health plan in the nation to announce it will incorporate 
 equity measures—differences in the quality of care across 
 racial and ethnic groups—into its contracts and payment 
 programs with clinicians who care for Blue Cross 
 members. \nIn this session\, the presenters will give an 
 overview of the methodological challenges to 
 measurement-based efforts to improve health equity\, and will 
 explain how BCBSMA has addressed these challenges. 
 Challenges have included collecting self-reported race and 
 ethnicity data directly\; assessing the accuracy of race and 
 ethnicity data available from other sources\; imputing 
 missing race and ethnicity data and accounting for their 
 measurement properties for reporting and accountability\; and 
 designing a pay-for-equity program that meets high validity 
 and reliability standards.\nJoin this training and learn 
 about the BCBSMA plan to help bridge the gap of systemic 
 health inequity and racial injustice.\nFaculty\n\nMark 
 Friedberg\, MD\, MPPMark Friedberg\, MD\, MPP is Senior Vice 
 President\, Performance Measurement & Improvement at Blue 
 Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. He is a practicing 
 general internist in primary care & an assistant professor 
 of medicine\, part-time\, at Brigham & Women’s Hospital & 
 Harvard Medical School. Dr. Friedberg received his B.A. from 
 Swarthmore College\, his M.D. from HMS & his M.P.P. from the 
 Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is responsible for 
 all activities related to measuring and improving the 
 performance of BCBSMA’s provider network\, including 
 metrics used in value-based contracts such as our 
 Alternative Quality Contract\, and he oversees data analytics 
 related to BCBSMA’s own performance as a health 
 plan.\n Shannon Welch\, MPHShannon Welch\, MPH\, is a Senior 
 Director for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). 
  Her fifteen years of experience working in public health 
 drives her passion and commitment to equity-focused work. 
 Shannon’s current portfolio of projects includes work on 
 equity and population health initiatives. Shannon recently 
 led IHI’s Merck for Mothers Better Maternal Outcomes: 
 Redesigning Systems with Black Women initiative and 
 currently leads the Pursuing Equity Learning and Action 
 Network that aims to reduce inequities in health and health 
 care access\, treatment\, and outcomes by implementing 
 comprehensive strategies to create and sustain equitable 
 health systems.\nPrior to joining IHI\, Shannon worked for 
 the Oklahoma City-County Health Department as the Division 
 Director of Community Health.  During her tenure with the 
 agency\, she had primary oversight for a broad portfolio of 
 programs: Wellness Now (a 350-member\, community-led 
 coalition)\, fetal infant mortality review/maternal and child 
 health outreach\, chronic disease prevention\, school health\, 
 tobacco use prevention\, physical activity and nutrition\, 
 teen pregnancy prevention\, WIC\, Children First (Nurse Family 
 Partnership) and employee wellness.  Shannon is a graduate 
 from the University of Oklahoma\, where she earned a B.S. in 
 Health and Sport Sciences. She holds a Master of Public 
 Health degree from the University of Oklahoma Health 
 Sciences Center.  \n
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