During 2011-2012, Baptist Health worked with a group of 27 Arkansas physicians from across the health system to create a physician led and managed subsidiary, Baptist Health Physician Partners. BHPP is a clinical integration program based on the promise that by working differently with physicians, we can improve clinical outcomes and become more efficient in the ways we deliver care. This idea of physician partnerships was revolutionary in the state of Arkansas.
From 2012 to 2024, Baptist Health Physician Partners has grown to 2,000+ providers and counting. BHPP has expanded far outside of the system and across the entire state. These 2,000+ providers are working toward one common goal: to improve the quality and lower the cost of healthcare for all Arkansans.
Baptist Health Physician Partners is a physician-driven, physician-led, and physician-managed care delivery strategy. Through partnership with BHPP, physicians have the opportunity to contract collectively with fee-for-service payers and employers for financial incentives based on achievement of quality benchmarks. This quality data is provided by the BHPP IT system: Arcadia Analytics.
Arcadia, the data and analytics platform, is of no cost to the physician partners and provides web based access to quality data. Arcadia provides a look at the continuum of care across all levels of patient care providing quality and efficiency reporting. Arcadia also provides a population risk management tool designed to look in depth at better care for specific patient populations – such as the Baptist Health employee plan, as well as a pre-visit planning tool.
Everyone in Arkansas can benefit from Baptist Health Physician Partners:
Patients – Patients receive consistent, well-rounded, and high quality care delivered from a trusted source through better and more efficient communication among physicians.
Physicians – Physicians will be a part of a supportive network of peers and are given the ability to engage in joint contracting with payers for financial incentives based on achievements of quality measures within Value Based Contracts. Physicians have personal access to quality, business intelligence information technology which contains data across the full continuum of care, thus, allowing an opportunity to provide the best possible care to their patients.
Hospitals – BHPP’s Clinical Integration program will give hospitals the ability to (a) demonstrate their quality to current and future patients; (b) enlist physician support for hospital initiatives; (c) reduce costs; (d) avoid readmission and other clinical quality related regulatory penalties; and (e) improve performance on hospital pay-for-performance measures.