Population Health Collaborative Quality Initiatives (PO Participating CQI's)
Focus on improving outcomes in areas such as chronic disease management, prevention, population-level health improvements, and health equity—rather than on acute surgical or procedural care. These CQIs are claims-based, clinical data initiatives available to primary care providers and select specialty practices. Practitioner participation is coordinated and managed through their Physician Organization (PO)
| CQI /Acronym | Provider Type | Contact Information | Initiative Description |
| Michigan Collaborative for Type 2 Diabetes (MCT2D) |
PCPs Endocrinologists Nephrologists |
OPNS CQI Program Coordinator: Julia Whitmore jwhitmore@opns.org | Focused on Type 2 diabetes: improving care for people with or at risk for type 2 diabetes by promoting use of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), encouraging evidence-based prescribing (e.g., SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists) and supporting lower-carbohydrate diets |
| Inspiring Health Advances in Lung Care (INHALE) | PCP, Allergists Pulmonologists Pediatric Pulmonologists |
OPNS CQI Program Coordinator: Julia Whitmore jwhitmore@opns.org |
Focus on asthma (children & adults) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Help providers implement evidence-based care, identify patients needing help early, and manage medication use to avoid overreliance on rescue meds or oral corticosteroids. |
| Michigan Mental health Innovation Network for clinical Design (MI-MIND) |
PCPs Psychiatrists |
OPNS CQI Program Coordinator: Julia Whitmore jwhitmore@opns.org |
Focused on behavioral health / mental health — specifically on suicide prevention, improving access to evidence-based mental health services, improving engagement, establishing statewide care pathways, and reducing suicide risk. |
Other BCBSM CQIs (BCBS Direct CQI's)
Partnering CQIs, Practice-based CQIs, and Hospital/Facility-based CQIs—are collaborative quality-improvement initiatives supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan that bring together hospitals, physician practices, and other partners to share data, improve care, and enhance outcomes. Providers can join these CQIs directly through the coordinating center of each individual CQI.
| CQI / Acronym |
Provider Type | Contact Information/ Website |
Initiative Description |
| Anesthesiology Performance Improvement and Reporting Exchange (ASPIRE) | Anesthesiologists | Program Manager: Tory Lacca (or Kate Buehler) — Email: lacca@umich.edu / kjbucrek@med.umich.edu Website: Mpog.org/quality |
Works to improve perioperative and anesthesiology care — reducing variation in anesthesia practices, improving safety and surgical outcomes. |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) |
Interventional Cardiologists and Vascular Surgeons |
Program Manager: Mollie Bodin Email: mbodin@med.umich.edu Website: Bmc2.org |
Focuses on cardiovascular care: improving outcomes and reducing complications for patients undergoing angioplasty (PCI), vascular surgery, structural heart procedures. |
| Healthy Behavior Optimization for Michigan (HBOM) | PCPs and all Physician Specialty Types |
Email at info@hbomich.org Website: hbomich.org |
Works on improving patient health behaviors. It targets interventions—such as smoking cessation—during key teachable moments in care, including new diagnoses, surgery, hospitalization, and pregnancy. Promotes behavior change across diverse patient populations. |
| Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS) | Hospitalists, Interventional Radiologists, Critical Care Physicians |
Program Manager: Elizabeth McLaughlin Email: emcnair@umich.edu Website: mi-hms.org |
Works on improving quality and safety for hospitalized medical patients (non‑surgical), addressing inpatient hospital medicine care. |
| Michigan Arthroplasty Registry Collaborative Quality Initiative (MARCQI) | Orthopedic Surgeons |
Email: MARCQI.CC@umich.edu Website: Marcqi.org |
Improves quality and outcomes for hip and knee joint replacement (arthroplasty) — hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers collaborate, data registry guides best practices. |
| Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative (MBSC) | Bariatric Surgeons |
Email: aoreilly@med.umich.edu (or Rachel Ross: rachacoo@umich.edu) Website: Mbscsurgery.org |
Focuses on bariatric (weight‑loss) surgery, working to improve surgical quality and patient outcomes in bariatric procedures |
| Michigan Oncology Quality Consortium (MOQC) | Oncologist | Phone:734‑232‑0043 Email moqc@moqc.org Website: moqc.org |
Focuses on enhancing the quality, safety, and efficiency of cancer care across Michigan. MOQC focuses on evidence-based treatments, reducing variation in care, and improving outcomes for patients receiving medical and gynecologic oncology services. |
| Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative (MSQC) | General and Vascular Surgeons Gynecologic Surgeons |
Email: MSQCCustomerSupport@med.umich.edu Website: Msqc.org |
Broad general- and vascular-surgery quality improvement across hospitals statewide — reduces complications, optimizes surgical care, and standardizes best practices. |
| Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative (MSTCVS) |
Cardiothoracic Surgeons | Email: clarkmel@med.umich.edu Website: Mstcvs.org/the-MSTCVS-quality-collaborative/ |
Addresses cardiac and thoracic surgery — aims to improve outcomes, reduce risks and complications for patients undergoing cardiothoracic and related surgeries. |
| Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MSSIC) | Orthopedic Surgeons and Neurosurgeons | Email: jmyers8@hfhs.org Website: Mssic.org |
Focuses on spine surgery — improving patient outcomes, reducing surgical complications and repeat surgeries, improving functional recovery for spine conditions. |
| Michigan Social Health Interventions to Eliminate Disparities (MSHIELD) |
PCPs and all Physician Specialty Types |
Email: admin@michiganshield.org Website: michiganshield.org |
Focuses on integrating social determinants of health (housing, food access, transportation) into clinical care. MSHIELD works with existing CQIs to promote equity and ensure that non‑medical barriers to health are addressed alongside medical care. |
| Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC) | Urologist | Email: musicurology@umich.edu Phone (855‑456‑2035) Website: musicurology.com |
MUSIC works with practices and hospitals across Michigan to collect and analyze clinical data, reducing variation, and enhancing patient outcomes for conditions such as prostate cancer, kidney stones, and small renal masses. |
| Michigan Trauma Quality Improvement Program (MTQIP) | General and Trauma Surgeons |
Email: jmikhail@med.umich.edu Website: Mtqip.org |
Works to improve quality of trauma care for patients admitted to trauma centers, reducing morbidity/mortality and standardizing trauma care statewide. |
| Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC) | Emergency Medicine Physicians | Email: afscott@med.umich.edu Website: Medicqi.org |
Dedicated to improving emergency department (ED) care (adult and pediatric) — evaluating and enhancing ED processes, patient care, and outcomes across Michigan. |
| Michigan Radiation Oncology Quality Collaborative (MROQC) | Radiation oncologists |
Email: support@mroqc.org Website: Msqc.org |
Focuses on quality of radiation therapy for cancer patients — optimizing radiation oncology care (e.g., for lung, breast, prostate cancers), improving outcomes, reducing treatment‐related harms. |
| Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) | Obstetricians/ Gynecologists | Email: obicustomersupport@med.umich.edu Website: Obstetricsinitiative.org |
Aims to improve maternity and obstetric care — supports vaginal delivery and works to safely reduce Cesarean deliveries among low-risk births, improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. |
| Michigan Anticoagulation Quality Improvement Initiative (MAQI2) | Cardiologists | Email: khaymart@umich.edu Website: Maqi2.org |
Manages quality improvement for anticoagulation therapy — improving safety and outcomes for patients on blood-thinners (reducing clotting and bleeding events). |
| Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC) | Quality medical leadership within hospitals (evaluates 43 different clinical episodes) |
Email: Michigan-Value-Collaborative@med.umich.edu Phone: (734) 232‑1934 Website: Michiganvalue.org |
Cross‑cutting value/cost/outcomes registry — partners with many CQIs to provide multi‑payer data, benchmarks, and analytics to support value‑based care improvement statewide. |
