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MSHIELD promotes whole health for all people. This includes addressing both medical and non-medical factors that affect health in our daily lives such as affordable housing, healthy food, and access to transportation.
MSHIELD promotes whole health for all people. This includes addressing both medical and non-medical factors that affect health in our daily lives such as affordable housing, healthy food, and access to transportation.
Clinical care accounts for only 20% of patients’ health outcomes, yet it accounts for the overwhelming majority of health care spending. Significant variablity in all patients' life circumstances often lead to missed opportunities for low-cost, high-value preventive care, and too often results in complex, high-cost care that could have been avoided. Many health care providers and health plans recognize the large contribution of such non-medical circumstances that affect patient outcomes, but few interventions are currently implemented to help them.
The existing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) collaborative quality initiatives (CQIs) provide an ideal structure for implementing high-impact interventions to improve health outcomes while also providing higher-value care.
The existing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) collaborative quality initiatives (CQIs) provide an ideal structure for implementing high-impact interventions to improve health outcomes while also providing higher-value care.
Through partnership with existing CQIs, health care providers, and community organizations across the state, MSHIELD works to ensure that patients' life circumstances outside the clinic are supported, so that they can fully benefit from the health care they receive and reduce costs to health systems.
MSHIELD uses a data-driven approach to identify patients at the highest risk for high-cost and low-value care. Our interventions include activities that focus on addressing barriers to high-quality care, both in and out of the clinical setting, such as addressing non-medical needs, which are associated with adverse health outcomes.
To address the non-medical needs of patients, MSHIELD works closely with community hubs and other partners across Michigan doing the work to advance health for all Michiganders.
Each partner program provides an array of supportive resources such as safe and affordable housing, access to food, mental health and substance use services, complex care management, health education, assistance accessing care, transportation, utility needs, and other services that support whole health for all people.
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