Advanced Primary Care support

Find educational resources to help ensure your success as a provider with Blue Shield's Advanced Primary Care program.

 

Advanced Primary Care program overview

Advanced Primary Care payment model manual

This comprehensive manual explains value-based care and the Advanced Primary Care payment model using simple graphics and examples. You may review this manual in its entirety or use the clickable table of contents to navigate to the content you need.
 Provider manual
 (Coming soon)
 Advanced Primary Care at-a-glance infographic (Coming soon) 
 

Advanced Primary Care payment model webinar

This webinar provides a deep dive into the Advanced Primary Care payment model and an overview of the program.
 Recorded webinar (40 min)  (Update coming soon)
 Advanced Primary Care presentation (PDF, 1 MB)  (Update coming soon)

Primary Care Reimagined: Contacts list

 Program contact list (PDF, 53 KB)

 

Value-based reporting platform training

Value-Based Reporting user guide

The Value-Based Reporting platform is a flexible, user-friendly data interface designed to help you optimize patient care and track financial and quality progress. This user guide provides step-by-step instructions for using the platform. You may review the guide in its entirety or click the links in the table of contents to go directly to the information you need..
 User Guide (PDF, 4 MB)
 

Value-Based Reporting tutorials

Watch these videos to learn how to track progress to goals and generate reports from the Value-Based Reporting platform.
  Performance overview and navigation (4 min)  (Update coming soon)
  Member attribution reporting (11 min) (Update coming soon)
  Financial reporting (5 min) (Update coming soon)  
  Performance incentives reporting (does not apply to Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)) (11 min) (Update coming soon) 
 

Advanced Primary Care Hybrid Model Value-Based Reporting FAQ

This document provides answers to basic questions about the Advanced Primary Care Hybrid Payment Model Value-Based Reporting tool. Use the table of contents to navigate directly to the information you need.
 FAQ (PDF, 62 MB)  (Update coming soon)
 

Performance measures and coding support

 Coding tip sheets

These tip sheets provide information about how to code appropriately so your practice receives credit for the work you do to improve patients' health and meet HEDIS measure requirements.
 Controlling High Blood Pressure Coding Tip Sheet (PDF, 36 KB)
 Diabetes Poor Control Coding Tip Sheet (PDF, 44 KB)

 

PMPM payment codes

Procedure codes: Inclusions and Exclusions

This document provides a list of procedure codes in numeric order and their respective payment type. Codes not listed will be paid fee-for-service (FFS). Use F3 on your keyboard to search the document.
 Primary Care Reimagined Procedure Codes (PDF, 4 MB)  (Update coming soon)