Dmg health partners

​ “We rec­og­nize the chal­lenges doc­tors face when they want to move their prac­tice from fee-for-ser­vice reim­burse­ment to a val­ue-based care mod­el, and through this land­mark part­ner­ship, we’ll make it pos­si­ble for inde­pen­dent physi­cians to par­tic­i­pate in val­ue based care in a mean­ing­ful way.

“This real­ly is a game-chang­er for inde­pen­dent physi­cians,” said Opel­la Ernest, M.D., divi­sion­al senior vice pres­i­dent and chief med­ical offi­cer for Blue Cross. CHICA­GO – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illi­nois (BCB­SIL) announced today that it has signed an agree­ment to launch an inno­v­a­tive new val­ue-based care mod­el with DuPage Med­ical Group (DMG), the largest inde­pen­dent physi­cian prac­tice in the Chica­go area, with more than 425 doctors.