Dr. Alvia Siddiqi serves as Medical Director with Advocate Physician Partners (APP) in Illinois. Her responsibilities include oversight of the Advocate Accountable Care Entity (ACE) program with nearly 100,000 beneficiaries in the Family Health Plan, now in a partnership arrangement with Meridian Health Plan. She is a member of the APP Quality Improvement, Utilization Management, Peer Review & Grievance, and Clinical Integration Design committees. She also oversees the APP Process Improvement department, which includes a transformation project of nearly 200 aligned independent primary care practices to Patient-centered Medical Homes.
Dr. Siddiqi was the former Medical Director of the Illinois Health Connect PCCM, which included at its peak nearly 6000 primary care medical homes in the network responsible for the care of 1.8 Million Medicaid beneficiaries. She was responsible for the oversight of the PCCM Quality Improvement projects, Pay-for-performance program, Provider Network & Quality Management and Behavioral Health subcommittees, and Provider education. Prior to the PCCM, Dr. Siddiqi had worked in traditional inpatient and outpatient settings with Alexian Brothers Medical Group in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago and as an Attending Physician with Cook County Health & Hospital Systems (CCHHS).
Dr. Siddiqi is a Board-certified Family Medicine physician and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). She is an appointed member of the AAFP Commission on Quality and Practice. She has also represented AAFP on the National Quality Forum (NQF) Measures Application Partnership Medicaid Task Forces for adult and pediatric quality core measure sets.
Education, Awards, and Professional Affiliations:
Dr. Siddiqi earned her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in 2005 and completed her Family Medicine Residency at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois, where she was also Chief Resident in 2008.
She is president of the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP). Dr. Siddiqi also serves on several committees, including a CMS Advisory panel, HFS Medicaid Advisory Quality Care Subcommittee, Chicago Area Patient Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN) Patient and Clinician Advisory Committee (PCAC), Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) Council on Economics, and Illinois Rural Health Association (IRHA) Executive Board. In addition, Dr. Siddiqi co-led the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Care Transitions workgroup and participated in CHIPRA ED Utilization and PCMH workgroups.
In March 2014, she completed a Medical Home training certification program offered in conjunction with the Sixth National Medical Home Summit in Philadelphia, PA. She has special interests in Quality Improvement, PCMH, and Population Health management for underserved populations.