PA insurer works to simplify MD board certifications

Independence Blue Cross (IBC), the Blue plan serving southeastern Pennsylvania, has kicked off a program designed to make it easier for its network physicians to maintain a key board certification. Working with the American Board of Internal Medicine, IBC is supplying neatly-packaged data that supports the ABIM's practice improvement requirement. The program will assist the 906 internists currently participating in IBC's network. To provide the information for ABIM, IBC is relying on the quality data it gathers as part of its pay for performance program.

IBC is doing something clever here, at least from a public relations standpoint, in packaging quality monitoring efforts as a service to physicians. Assuming the data plugs neatly into ABIM's requirements, and doesn't require a lot of massaging, this kind of workflow-enhancing move just makes sense.

Find out more about the data feed:
- see the IBC press release