Women’s Health Results and Recognition Program
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) would like to collaborate with you to improve maternal and women's health in New Jersey. Our goal is to positively impact the health and wellness of women.
Horizon BCBSNJ launched the Women's Health Results and Recognition (R&R) Program to improve clinical outcomes, performance on HEDIS measures and promote the quality of care rendered to your patients, our members.
Early detection for any health issue has the best outcome. Prenatal care can help reduce the risk of pregnancy complications and fetal complications. We are focusing on early detection by encouraging and educating our members to have their prenatal and postpartum care visit, to be screened for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and chlamydia.
The Women's Health R&R program offers additional financial incentives to providers that are tied to improved performance for specific HEDIS measures through high-touch collaboration with Horizon BCBSNJ. Horizon Healthy Journey and Horizon Mommy's Healthy Choice programs offers incentives for women who have completed their mammograms and for women who have their prenatal visit, postpartum visit and were screened for postpartum depression.
Through this R&R program, your site will receive:
- Clinical Quality Improvement Liaison - A dedicated single point of contact on quality for all lines of business with support through touch-point meetings, report analysis, educational webinars and resources to promote best practices and suggested HEDIS billing codes to close gaps of care.
- Additional Incentive Payments:
- Medicaid - Additional payments for every quality performance gap closed over the percentile NCQA Benchmarks.
- Medicaid Prenatal and Postpartum Visits - Additional payment for every quality performance gap closed once you reach the percentile NCQA Benchmarks.
- Medicare Stars - Additional payments for every quality performance gap closed once you reach the identified Stars rating.
- Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Program (FIDE-SNP) - Additional payments for every quality performance gap closed once you reach the identified Stars rating.
- Incentive payments - Payments are released through Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) with detailed payment attribution reports are placed on the HorizonDoc platform.
- Member Gap Reports - Practice-level monthly quality report cards and patient-level detail gap reports. Reports include detailed data, such as, open gaps of care, member specific information, Patient Risk Assessment (PRA) for expectant women who have completed the form, among other relevant information.
- Included in the Women's Health member detail gap reports, are important HEDIS measures for women who fall into Prenatal and Postpartum Care measures.
Women's Health R&R HEDIS measures:
Incentivized HEDIS Measures:
Prenatal and Postpartum Care – Prenatal Visit
Prenatal and Postpartum Care – Postpartum Visit
Breast Cancer Screening
Cervical Cancer Screening
Chlamydia Screening in Women
Informational HEDIS Measures:
Prenatal Immunization Status – Influenza and TDap
Prenatal Depression Screening and Follow up
Postpartum Depression Screening and Follow up
Prenatal Care can help reduce complications and risks to both the mother and infant.
Incentivized HEDIS Measures | Description | Best Practices |
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Prenatal and Postpartum Care (PPC) - The percentage of deliveries of live births on or between October 8 of the year prior to the measurement year and October 7 of the measurement year. |
Prenatal Care Visit | Prenatal care visit in the first trimester, on or before the enrollment start date or within 42 days of enrollment in the organization |
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Postpartum Care Visit | Postpartum visit on or between 7 and 84 days after delivery. |
Early detection is the key to better outcomes and offers care at the earliest possible stages of cancer.
Incentivized HEDIS Measures | Description | Best Practices |
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Breast Cancer Screening | Women 50–74 years of age who had a mammogram to screen for breast cancer any time on or between October 1 two years prior to the measurement year and December 31 of the measurement year. |
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Cervical Cancer Screening | Women 21–64 years of age who were screened for cervical cancer using either of the following criteria:
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Chlamydia Screening in Women |
Women 16-25 years of age who were identified as sexually active and who had at least one test for chlamydia during the measurement year.
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According to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, depression is one of the most common complications of pregnancy, affecting one in seven women. It includes minor and major depressive episodes occurring during pregnancy or the first 12 months after delivery. (ACOG Releases Recommendations on Screening for Perinatal Depression - Practice Guidelines - American Family Physician)
Informational HEDIS Measures | Description | Best Practices |
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Prenatal Depression Screening and Follow up - The percentage of deliveries in which members were screened for clinical depression while pregnant and, if screened positive, received follow-up care. | ||
Depression Screening | Members screened for clinical depression during pregnancy using a standardized instrument. |
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Follow Up Care | Members received follow-up care within 30 days of a positive depression screen finding |
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Postpartum Depression Screening and Follow up - The percentage of deliveries in which members were screened for clinical depression during the postpartum period, and if screened positive, received follow-up care. | ||
Depression Screening | Members screened for clinical depression using a standardized instrument during the postpartum visit. |
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Follow Up Care | Members received follow-up care within 30 days of a positive depression screen finding. |
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Prenatal Immunization Status – Influenza and Tdap – Members who had received influenza and tetanus, diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccinations for all women who are pregnant or may become pregnant. | ||
Influenza | Members received an adult influenza vaccine on or between July 1 of the year prior to the Measurement Period and the delivery date. |
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Tdap | Members received at least one Tdap vaccine during the pregnancy (including on the delivery date) |
Additional resources are available to assist you in closing gaps of care through the Horizon BCBS Quality Resource Center.
https://www.horizonblue.com/providers/resources/quality-resource-center
The Resource Center offers such tools as educational webinars, provider guidelines and a provider tips booklet that provides suggested NCQA codes to close gap of care.
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