Bridges to Excellence Participation

Bridges to Excellence is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization developed by employers, physicians, health care services, researchers, and other industry experts with a mission to create significant leaps in the quality of care by recognizing and rewarding health care providers who demonstrate that they have implemented comprehensive solutions in the management of patients and deliver safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered care. BTE is one of the only pay-for-performance models that employers, health plans and providers can participate in nationally. This is because the model is universally adaptable and provides a standard data platform for the exchange of performance data for the purposes of paying rewards to physicians and practices.

Because BTE's model is adaptable, several variations of BTE implementations have emerged:

• Health plans individually launch BTE for their commercial population or administer BTE for their employer customers.
• National Business Coalition on Health member coalitions implement BTE on behalf of their employer members.
• Employers, health plans and providers collaborating in a region or a state, organize specifically for the purposes of implementing BTE.
• Large provider IPAs encourage and support physicians and practices to become recognized.

The essential similarities in each of these models are: recognition indicators that include clinical data, meaningful rewards to providers for both demonstrated and improved performance, and support by both the BTE principles and the operational framework.
All stakeholders play important roles as participants. The source of each stakeholder’s participation is the common goal of improving the quality of healthcare within the community. Such improvements in healthcare will yield numerous benefits for patients, providers and payers.

Contact BTE if you are interested in participating.

Bringing the Stakeholders Together

Market conveners are people or organizations that work in an area to bring together all necessary parties and can be essential to the implementation and success of the local BTE effort. One example of a market convener is an employer coalition. Coalitions often have strong local relationships and the resources to launch and sustain a BTE implementation.

• Coalition participation
• Regional convener tools and resources

BTE’s Role

Bridges to Excellence (BTE) operations provides both a foundation for plug and play administration and flexibility for participants to add unique elements into the design (reward amounts, measures, performance assessment organizations, etc). The data platform that all participants plug into is the BTE Recognition Data Exchange (RDE).

BTE’s main objective is efficient, simple, timely and accurate administration of the program by:

• Providing one platform for multiple recognition program operations;
• Providing an appropriate level of coordination among administrators, partners and stakeholders;
• Allowing for the potential use of multiple Performance Assessment Organizations;
• Providing physicians access to the information necessary for rewards and market-wide eligible patient counts;
• Providing a consumer portal to display provider quality ratings; and
• Providing national best practices and tools to implement BTE and individual consulting.

Donating to BTE

If you would like to become a donor and make a contribution to Bridges to Excellence, please send a check made out to Bridges to Excellence, Tax ID 51-0461495, to the address below:

Francois de Brantes
CEO
Bridges to Excellence
13 Sugar Street
Newtown, CT 06470-2046

Your name will be listed on the BTE website as a donor unless you indicate otherwise. BTE does not endorse products or services. Please provide a return address for a receipt.