Ideal Missouri Medical Practice Initiative
 

The Ideal Missouri Medical Practice Initiative is an alliance of:
 

Missouri Physicians in office practices

St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition

St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition, a member of National Business Coalition on Health. The St. Louis Area Business Coalition on Health (SLABCH) is a non profit association founded in 1986 with the mission to create a competitive health care environment in which financial incentives are aligned towards improvements in cost, quality, and access. SLABCH incorporates Gateway Purchasers for Health and represents 40 employers in the St. Louis bi-state area.

NBCH

NBCH is a national, non-profit, membership organization of more than 70 employer-based health care coalitions, representing over 10,000 employers across the United States. NBCH and its members are dedicated to value-based purchasing of health care services through the collective action of public and private purchasers. In developing, identifying and disseminating best practices in value-based purchasing strategies; NBCH seeks to accelerate the nation's progress towards safe, efficient, high quality health care. For more information, call 202-775-9300 or visit our website. Contacts are Andrew Webber and Suzanne Mercure.

The Commonwealth Fund

We are generously supported by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that promotes a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. Contact Melinda Abrams for additional information.