Midwest Health Initiative

INFORMATION SHARING WITH PROVIDERS, PLANS, AND OTHER PARTNERSMHI shares information with providers on how care utilized by their attributed population compares to that of others. It also convenes community partners to share information and align actions toward improvement. During this period, MHI business, government, and labor purchaser partners worked together with health plans and provider partners to measure progress towards the voluntary spending growth targets set for 2023 by the REACH workgroup. Progress was measured using MHIs commercial claims data warehouse, presented during workgroup meetings, and shared with medical group leaders in individual reports and one-on-one meetings. Measures covered in the conversations and reports included individual and composite measures of health care quality, measures of total cost of care per person attributed to a medical group, and measures of high-cost services that could be driving costs up. The workgroup continued to meet and track progress toward shared goals through May 2023. More about this work, undertaken by the REACH workgroup (Road to Effective and Affordable Change in Healthcare) can be found on the MHI website.

INFORMATION SHARING WITH THE PUBLICMHI supports the public with insights via reports and websites. The St. Louis Health Stats, a community scorecard, offers employers and the broader public relevant benchmarks from which to compare the results for their population with the regions larger commercial population. The scorecard products were expanded to Kansas City to provide similar benchmarking metrics to another metropolitan area in Missouri and call attention to any location-specific disparities.