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26 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 OneCare Vermont (Colchester, Vt.). OneCare Vermont was created jointly by Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H., and Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt. It is a Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO that coordinates care for about 42,000 of the state's 118,000 Medicare beneficiaries. The organization joined the shared savings program in January 2013. Optimus Healthcare Partners (Summit, N.J.). Optimus Healthcare Partners is an ACO formed by Vista Health System IPA and the Central Jersey Physician Network. The ACO, which includes more than 500 physicians, joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in April 2012. It also has some commercial ACO contracts, with payers like Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Aetna. All together, the ACO covers approximately 80,000 beneficiaries. Orlando (Fla.) Health. Orlando Health, a nonprofit eight-hospital system, joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January 2013 as Collaborative Care of Florida. Additionally, 532 physicians in the system's affiliated group, Orlando Health Physician Partners, launched an ACO with Cigna in January. The Cigna agreement covers about 24,000 patients. OSF Healthcare System (Peoria, Ill.). OSF Healthcare System's medical centers, physicians, advanced care practitioners and home care services comprise the OSF Healthcare System Pioneer ACO. The Medicare ACO improved quality of care while reducing costs by 1 percent for its Medicare beneficiaries. In addition to its Medicare contract, OSF Healthcare has an ACO agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois that will cover nearly 40,000 patients starting Jan. 1, 2014. Park Nicollet Health Services (St. Louis Park, Minn.). Park Nicollet is one of the original 32 Pioneer ACOs, but has been involved in accountable care efforts since well before CMS named it to the program late in 2011. The system participated in CMS' Physician Group Practice Demonstration, in which it achieved benchmark performance on all 32 quality measures. In 2012, Park Nicollet established an ACO with nonprofit payer Medica. Partners HealthCare (Boston). The integrated system of Partners HealthCare, which includes Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, is one of the original 32 and remaining 23 Medicare Pioneer ACOs. Partners covers about 52,000 Medicare patients in its Pioneer ACO, and the system earned $14.4 million in shared savings after its first performance year. Penn Medicine (Philadelphia). Penn Medicine is comprised of several hospitals, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and Pennsylvania Hospital, and PennCare primary care practices. Penn Medicine joined the Independence Blue Cross' pay-for-performance and accountable care payment model in 2013. IBC is paying Penn Medicine physicians for their adherence to evidence-based guidelines and reductions in hospital-acquired infections and readmissions. Physician Health Partners (Denver). Physician Health Partners is a medical management company, and CMS selected it as one of the 32 original Pioneer ACOs in late 2011. The group works with more than 300 physicians to coordinate care. Physician Health Partners decided to leave the Pioneer program in July 2013, but is still committed to working with CMS by participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Physician Organization of Michigan ACO (Ann Arbor). The Physician Organization of Michigan ACO, or POM ACO, joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2013. The ACO includes more than 1,800 physicians and Poor physician satisfaction keeping you up? For more than three decades, The Greeley Company has worked closely with physicians and hospitals, helping them to successfully reevaluate and restructure their relationships. The result is a level of trust that enhances physician leadership, physician satisfaction and physician-hospital relations, and delivers a better night's sleep for all concerned. So don't let poor physician satisfaction keep you awake at night. Call the Greeley Company today at 888-749-3054, and rest easy. Physician-Hospital Alignment I Medical Staff Operations l Education Clinical Process Improvement l Regulatory Compliance l Accreditation The Greeley Company | Bring us your biggest challenge.

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