Becker's Hospital Review

24 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 Minneapolis-based Allina Health and covers more than 300,000 people. Additionally, HealthPartners is one of the first six organizations to receive ACO accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. in 2011, but was also one of nine ACOs to announce its departure from the Pioneer ACO program in July 2013 after results from the ACOs' first performance year were released. Health Management Associates (Naples, Fla.). HMA has 71 hospital locations in 15 states. In 2013, the company announced an accountable care delivery model with Florida Blue for patients specifically in Brevard County, Fla. The agreement includes Wuesthoff Medical Center-Melbourne (Fla.) and Wuesthoff Medical Center-Rockledge (Fla.) along with HMA's physicians. The initial partnership, announced in May, is expected to lead to further cooperation between HMA and Florida Blue. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic (Houston). Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is a physician group with 21 locations and more than 370 board-certified physicians in 56 specialties. The group was one of the first six organizations to be recognized as an ACO by the National Committee for Quality Assurance in 2012. It also calls itself Houston's first ACO. Heartland Health (St. Joseph, Mo.). Heartland Health is an integrated health delivery system consisting of Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph and Heartland Clinic, a physician-led multispecialty medical group practice. The system was selected by CMS in July 2012 to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The ACO is anchored by 11 patient-centered medical homes that have been recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Heritage California ACO (Northridge). Heritage California ACO is an affiliate of the Heritage Provider Network, which is a collaboration of 10 affiliated medical groups and independent practice associations. HPN has contracts with 2,300 primary care physicians, 30,000 specialists and more than 100 hospitals. Heritage California ACO is one of the 32 original and 23 remaining Pioneer ACO program participants. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach, Calif.). Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian partnered with Greater Newport Physicians Medical Group, an independent practice association with more than 500 affiliated physicians, to form an ACO with Blue Shield of California in July 2012. The ACO covers about 11,000 Blue Shield HMO members. The contract between the three parties is good for a minimum of three years. Holy Cross Hospital (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.). Holy Cross Hospital's clinically integrated group, Holy Cross Physician Partners, officially became a participant of the Florida Blue Accountable Care Program Jan. 1, 2013. The ACO covers about 4,100 lives and may expand to include the Holy Cross Hospital employee group in the future. Holy Cross Physician Partners has more than 230 primary care and specialty physicians. Hunterdon Healthcare Partners (Flemington, N.J.). Hunterdon Healthcare Partners, the physician-hospital organization affiliated with Hunterdon Healthcare, has three commercial ACO contracts. Its contract with Aetna includes about 2,200 members in Hunterdon's employee benefits plan and about 5,700 Aetna members. The PHO also has an ACO contract with Cigna, covering about 6,500 members, and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, which covers more than 18,000 lives. KentuckyOne Health Partners (Louisville, Ky.). KentuckyOne Health Partners is a physician-led clinically integrated network developed by KentuckyOne Health, which is the parent of Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's HealthCare and Saint Joseph Health System. KentuckyOne Health Partners was accepted into the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January 2013. Key Physicians (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Key Physicians is a group of more than 220 independent physicians and 48 practice locations throughout North Carolina. The physician group has had ACO contracts with Cigna and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina since 2012. Additionally, Key Physicians recently partnered with WakeMed Health in Raleigh, N.C., to form a Medicare ACO, WakeMed Key Community Care. That partnership applied for the Medicare Shared Savings Program with a start date of Jan. 1, 2014. Lahey Clinical Performance ACO (Beverly, Mass.). Lahey Clinical Performance ACO is affiliated with Lahey Health, which includes Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beverly Hospital and more than 1,200 physicians. LCPN joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January 2013. MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization (Portland). MaineHealth ACO was accepted into CMS' Medicare Shared Savings Program in July 2012. The system leveraged that ACO structure into an accountable care agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the state's first commercial ACO. The ACO has seven member hospitals and more than 1,000 physicians in southern Maine. Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston). Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest nonprofit health system in southeast Texas with 12 hospitals and 5,500 affiliated physicians. The system, along with MHMD, the system's 332-physician network, joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in July 2012. The Medicare ACO has the potential to reach 100,000 people in the Houston region. Memorial Hermann and MHMD also formed a commercial ACO with Aetna in April 2013. Mercy Health Select (Cincinnati). Mercy Health Select is the managed care component of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, a seven-hospital system. The ACO was selected to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January 2013. Mercy Health Select covers 25,000 Medicare patients and is the only ACO in Cincinnati. Indiana University Health (Indianapolis). Indiana University Health is an academic medical center partnered with Indiana University School of Medicine. CMS selected Indiana University Health to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program as an ACO in July 2012. John Fitzgerald, MD, serves as the ACO's president and CEO. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (Memphis, Tenn.). Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a nonprofit, seven-hospital system, stepped into a fiveyear ACO agreement with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee effective Jan. 1, 2013. Additionally, Health Choice, a joint venture of MetroCare Physicians and Methodist Le Bonheur, launched a collaborative accountable care initiative with Cigna in 2011, which initially covered about 17,000 members. John Muir Health (Walnut Creek, Calif.). John Muir Health is a threehospital system that has both Medicare and commercial ACO contracts. John Muir joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in July 2012. That same month, the system launched an ACO with Blue Shield of California that is scheduled to last for at least three years. The commercial ACO covers about 16,000 lives. Methodist Patient-Centered ACO (Dallas). The Methodist PatientCentered ACO is backed by nonprofit Methodist Health System, which has four acute-care hospitals in the Dallas area. The ACO joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in July 2012. JSA Medical Group (Saint Petersburg, Fla.). JSA Medical Group is comprised of 34 primary care practices in the greater Tampa Bay and Orlando areas and has affiliations with more than 50 primary care practices. It was one of the first 32 organizations to be named a Pioneer ACO by CMS Michigan Pioneer ACO (Detroit). The Michigan Pioneer ACO is affiliated with Detroit Medical Center and includes more than 200 physicians. DMC was one of the first hospitals in the country to successfully go "paperless" with electronic medical records in 2008. Michigan Pioneer ACO is one of the 32 original and 23 remaining Pioneer ACOs in the country.

• Cover