ACC had an exciting meeting this week with Wellmark, the leading Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer in Iowa and South Dakota to discuss ways of collaborating on continuous quality improvement and “value” based reporting initiatives. ACC Science and Quality SVP Janet Wright, M.D., F.A.C.C., and her team led the discussions, which I discovered could be fruitful in meetings earlier this year with BCBS.  This company is one of the most progressive of the BCBS plans nationally.  And there appears to be a general interest in working with NCDR, IC3 and ACC in developing some interesting projects.