Our UMass Memorial Managed Care Network is comprised of some of the top performing physicians in the state for delivering high-quality and cost efficient care to their patients. This has once again been confirmed by both Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan - plans that recently issued awards to physicians for certain measures of quality and relative resource utilization.
Congratulations to the following physicians for receiving the Tufts Health Plan Blue Ribbon Award designation:
Elias Belezos, MD; June Marie Blanco, MD; Maria Casal, MD; Gerald Chase, MD; Paula Cullinane, MD; Megan Douglas, MD; Robert Ferguson, MD; Heather Gallo, MD; Gayatridevi Ika, MD; Joseph Kuruvilla, MD; Jeffrey Lee, MD; Susan Moran, MD; Mary O'Brien, MD; William O'Connor, MD; Richard Orino, MD; Mary Anne Shea, MD, and John Solomonnides, MD.
Congratulations to the following physicians who would have received the Blue Ribbon Award from Tufts Health Plan if they had open panels:
Sarika Aggarwal, MD; Clifford Behmer, MD; William Corbett, MD; Kevin Delacey, MD; David Fahey, MD; Robert Klugman, MD; Gordon Manning, MD; Andrew Miller, MD; Steven Rozak,MD; Jerianne Seger, MD; Kenneth Stevens, MD; E. Russell Young, MD, and Sowmya Viswanathan, MD.
Congratulations to the following physicians for scoring in the top tenth percentile for the 2004 Blue Cross Blue Shield Primary Care Physician Incentive Program, measuring certain national health care quality measures:
Michael Cozzi, MD; Melilssa Fischer, MD; Erik Garcia, MD; Yan Li, MD; Christopher Stille, MD, and Beverly Wedda, MD.