The Asthma Care Recognition Program is a Bridges to Excellence Clinician Recognition Program intended to identify clinicians who deliver high-value asthma care to adult patients. The program is designed with an understanding that adult patients may seek the care of various types of practitioners— primary care (PCPs), pulmonologists, allergy and immunologists, and others —for treatment and management of their asthma. Accordingly, the measures reflect that clinicians should do the following.
- Deliver high-âquality care from the outset of patient contact
- Understand and consider previous treatment history to help avoid inappropriate treatment
- The program comprises a set of measures, based on available clinical evidence, that promote a model of care that includes the following criteria.
Comprehensive patient assessment and reassessment
- Patient education
- Shared decision making
BTE's Asthma Care requirements assess clinical measures representing standards of care for patients with asthma. HCI3 believes that the Asthma Care Recognition program has the potential to significantly improve the quality of care experienced by patients with asthma and to reduce the financial and human burden of unnecessary hospitalizations and complications.
To earn Asthma Care Recognition, clinicians and medical practices voluntarily submit medical record data documenting their delivery of care to patients with asthma. HCI3 has partnered with two objective third-party independent Performance Assessment Organizations (PAOs) to evaluate clinician data based on standard measures to publicly recognize those that meet the BTE Asthma Care performance thresholds. Those clinicians not meeting the BTE Asthma Care performance thresholds remain anonymous to BTE and its health plan licensees. BTE's Asthma Care Recognition Program has three performance thresholds...
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