Practice/Provider Recruitment

General Recruitment Timelines

INHALE allows participation for both primary care physicians and specialists. Our specialists include Adult and Pediatric Pulmonologists and Allergists. Practices are able to participate in the INHALE CQI through their Physician Organization (PO). Recruitment of practices/providers takes place twice a year for participating POs and aligns with the BCBSM Value-Based Reimbursement (VBR) start dates.

Upcoming Recruitment Dates

Primary Care & Pediatrician Practice/Provider recruitment will tentatively begin March 3rd and close April 30th, 2025. These practices will be eligible for VBR starting September 1st.
Specialty Care Practice/Provider recruitment will tentatively begin in September 2025. These practices will be eligible for VBR starting March 1st.

Choose Appropriate Physicians/Practices to Participate

When recruiting physicians/practices to participate in the INHALE CQI please give careful consideration to the patient population served. While there is no minimum number of asthma and COPD patients required for participation (at this time) we do anticipate stipulations around patient population size in the future. Of note, if a physician has less than 10 attributed patients, data will not be visible on the Population Health Registry.

Each PO can choose to recruit individual physicians or full practices to participate. For practice-level participation, all eligible physicians from the practice will be listed as participating in the CQI.

Provider eligibility requirements:

PCPs – must be on PGIP Snapshot and PCMH designated (for VBR)
SCPs – must be on PGIP Snapshot for full year and have a combined specialty of ‘Pulmonary Disease’, ‘Pediatric Allergy/Immunology’, ‘Allergy/Immunology’, or ‘Pediatric Pulmonology

New Physician/Practice Checklist

The checklist below can help ensure all physicians and practices are successfully added into the CQI.

Download or view the INHALE Introduction and Guidebook to get an overview of the program.
After reviewing all of the VBR Requirements, sign Participation Agreement(s) if you wish to do so with your practices
- Download the Practitioner Agreement
Familiarize yourself with the Admin Portal
- PO Admins should identify Practice Clinical Champion and Liaison; update their contact information in the Admin Portal
Request Access to the Population Health Registry (data dashboard) through MDC
- For assistance with accessing the data dashboard view these instructions.
- To learn how to navigate the dashboard, review the INHALE CQI User Guide.
Add Physician(s) to INHALEarning Platform
Encourage your physicians to subscribe to the INHALE Clinical Newsletter below
Take some time to review the Resources and Toolkits that have been carefully curated by INHALE staff

NOTE: VBR Eligible Providers (PCP/SCP) are pulled from the INHALE Admin Portal. It is the sole responsibility of the PO to maintain/update/verify the lists of providers participating and to inform INHALE if a change in status is needed,(i.e. removing provider). INHALE does not/will not add people to the list of participating providers outside of recruitment windows (Spring/Fall).

Introduction to INHALE

Current Members

Meetings

Member PO Materials

PDSA Documents

Request a Resource Bag

VBR Information

VBR Information (Archive)

Joining INHALE

General Participation Requirements

PO Recruitment and Application

Practice/Provider Recruitment