ASPIRE Recruitment and Funding
2019 Recruitment
The 2019 ASPIRE Recruitment period has concluded.
2020 Recruitment
If your hospital is interested in joining ASPIRE the next recruitment period will run from May – June 2019. For recruitment dates, see Important Date Ranges below.
Recruitment Process:
- Hospitals must review the ASPIRE Eligibility Requirements and Site Expectations
- Submit an application during the recruitment period
- All hospitals who submit an application will participate in an intake meeting(s). The meeting(s) will be scheduled between ASPIRE and the clinical and technical teams from the hospital. These meetings are to determine the feasibility of MPOG implementation at the hospital.
Funding Michigan Hospitals
State of Michigan hospitals are eligible to receive funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) to offset the costs of joining MPOG.
In the first year, Michigan hospitals will receive funding from BCBSM for servers, software, cost of obtaining professional fee billing reimbursement and IT / clinical staff costs. Implementation takes a significant amount of technical resources and a hospital should plan to allocate 50% of a technical expert for six months. In addition, hospitals will receive reimbursement for an Anesthesiology Clinical Quality Reviewer (ACQR) who will coordinate the data extraction and assist the QI Champion in leading the QI efforts.
After the first year, hospitals will continue to receive yearly funding from BCBSM for the ACQR and technical resources. MPOG is an ongoing effort and will require continued technical support to assist with ad hoc issues, patches and software updates.
All new hospitals will officially start January 1st of the following year and should expect to receive their first payment from BCBSM in mid-January. Although the official start is in January, new sites will start preparations for implementation in September.
Year One Estimated Reimbursements
| Computer Equipment and Software | Primary Site | Secondary Site |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Server 2012 local database and virtual machine | $8,000 | $2,000 |
| SQL Server 2012 Site license (if no site license is available) | $5,000 or $0 | $0 |
| Professional fee billing company reimbursement (funds to obtain professional fee data from billing company) | $3,000 | $1,000 |
| Site Hospital IT to deploy EHR interface | $40,000 | $10,000 |
| Total first year capital reimbursement | $56,000 or $51,000 | $13,000 |
| Personnel | Primary Site | Secondary Site |
|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology Clinical Quality Reviewer (ACQR) 0.4 FTE funded at 100% | $35,000 - $43,000 | $35,000 - $43,000 |
| Total first year personnel reimbursement | $35,000 - $43,000 | $35,000 - $43,000 |
In the first year a Michigan hospital will receive between $86,000 – $100,000 for a primary site and $48,000 – $56,000 for a secondary sites. The distinction between a primary and secondary hospital is a hospital system that has several hospitals on the same instance of an electronic health record (EHR) system. The technical implementation costs will not double to add more hospitals but a hospital system will incur incremental costs for each additional hospital. All sites may be eligible to receive funding for an ACQR at all hospitals.
Estimated Ongoing Reimbursements – Year 2 and Beyond
| Primary Site | Secondary Site | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating | ||
| Hospital IT maintenance of data interface | $8,000 | $2,000 |
| Personnel | ||
| Anesthesiology Clinical Quality Reviewer (ACQR) 0.4 FTE funded at 100% | $35,000 - $43,000 | $35,000 - $43,000 |
Important Date Ranges
| June - August | ASPIRE Recruitment
|
| September - December | Preparation for implementation
|
| January - June | Cohort Start
|
| June | Receive second BCBSM payment |
| July / August | Receive first individual monthly provider reports |
| September | MPOG Site Visit |