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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, in partnership with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, have developed national Blue Distinction Centers for bariatric surgery, cardiac care, and transplant services. Each Center has been selected through a rigorous evaluation of clinical data that provides insight into the facility's structures, processes and outcomes of care. These nationally established criteria were developed with input from medical experts and organizations and support the consistent, objective assessment of specialty care capabilities.
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Blue Distinction Centers for Bariatric SurgerySM
Blue Distinction Centers for bariatric surgery provide a full range of bariatric surgical care services including inpatient care, post-operative care, follow-up and patient education. These facilities must meet stringent quality criteria, as established by expert physician panels, surgeons, behaviorists and nutritionists.
Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac CareSM
Blue Distinction Centers for cardiac care provide a full range of cardiac care services, including inpatient cardiac care, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac catheterization (Including percutaneous coronary interventions) and cardiac surgery (including coronary artery bypass graft surgery)1. These facilities must meet stringent quality criteria, as established by expert physician panels and national organizations.
As part of the Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac Care program, participating Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association are working with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to support ACC’s “D2B: An Alliance for Quality.” D2B is a program to save lives by reducing the door-to-balloon times in hospitals for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, also known as angioplasty). To learn more about this important initiative and how it helps increase patient safety, click here.
Blue Distinction Centers for TransplantsSM
The Blue Distinction Centers for transplants program examines 8 transplant types:
- heart
- lung (deceased and living donor)
- combination heart bilateral lung
- liver (deceased and living donor)
- simultaneous pancreas kidney (SPK)
- kidney-only in conjunction with SPK
- pancreas (PAK/PTA)
- combination liver kidney
- bone marrow/stem cell (autologous & allogeneic)
Additional value-added services provided within this network include global pricing, financial savings analysis and global claims administration support, as well as support services such as referral management, patient satisfaction survey reports and transplant-related continuing education programs for Blue companies.
Click here for additional resources and facts about transplant services.
1 At the discretion of the local BCBS company and under a specified exceptions process, a facility that provides the full range of cardiac services but does not provide on-site CABG surgery may be considered for designation if it is part of a cooperative system with a qualifying facility that provides emergency backup CABG for PCI and meets the exceptions criteria. Blue Distinction Centers for cardiac care without on-site CABG will be differentiated from full-service Blue Distinction Centers for cardiac care in program listings.
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