Becker's Hospital Review

102 MPCACO earned $5.3 million in shared savings. e ACO cov- ers more than 14,000 Medicare beneficiaries. Michigan Pioneer ACO (Detroit). Michigan Pioneer ACO, affiliated with Detroit Medical Center, is one of 19 remaining ACOs participating in the Pioneer model. e ACO earned $5.9 million in shared savings in its second year of operation, when fewer than half of the other ACOs that launched in 2012 received earned any shared savings. Michigan Pioneer ACO coordinates care for approximately 13,000 patients. MissionPoint Health Partners (Nashville, Tenn.). Saint omas Health developed MissionPoint Health Partners, which was chosen to participate as an ACO in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January 2012. e ACO has 7,900 partici- pating physicians, 250,000 members and has facilitated nearly 79,000 patient visits so far in 2015. MissionPoint also established a telemedicine program, Care-at-a-Distance, which is within the scope of the MSSP participation waiver and aims to make it easier for members to access care regardless of location. Monarch Healthcare ACO (Irvine, Calif.). A part of the Pio- neer ACO pilot project, Monarch Healthcare ACO now includes more than 2,300 independent, private-practice physicians who provide healthcare for approximately 176,000 Orange County residents. e Monarch Pioneer ACO saved 5.4 percent of fore- casted medical costs following its launch, making it the second highest performer of the 23 pioneer organizations in 2013. For performance year 2014, the ACO earned $5.99 million in shared savings. Montefiore ACO (New York City). Affiliated with Montefiore Medical Center, the Montefiore ACO was designated as the only Pioneer Model ACO in New York in 2011. In September 2012, Montefiore Medical Center also signed an ACO agreement with Empire BlueCross BlueShield. e ACO now serves more than 24,000 Medicare beneficiaries and earned a shared savings of $8.4 million in performance year 2014. Mosaic Life Care (St. Joseph, Mo.). Mosaic Life Care's MSSP ACO includes Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph Medical Center and Mosaic Life Care Clinic. In 2014, the ACO earned about $2 million in shared savings. Out of all the ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Mosaic Life Care had the second high- est overall quality score in 2014, clocking in at 95.11 percent. Mount Auburn Cambridge (Mass.) Independent Practice Association. Partnered with Mount Auburn Hospital, the Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA is a Medicare Pioneer ACO. Approx- imately 500 physicians participate in the ACO, which reduced spending by 3.4 percent in its first year of operation, 2012. e ACO, which now serves more than 10,400 Medicare beneficia- ries, earned shared savings of $3.9 million in performance year 2014. National ACO (Beverly Hills, Calif.). Awarded participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January 2013, National ACO is physician owned and operated and focused on providing participants and affiliates with the tools to improve care coor- dination. e ACO currently serves more than 5,500 Medicare beneficiaries. National Rural ACO (Nevada City, Calif.). e National Rural ACO began participating in the Medicare Share Savings Program in 2014. It now consists of more than 30 hospitals across nine states. e NRACO was formed so rural organizations could overcome the high start-up costs and the MSSP's requirement for ACOs to cover at least 5,000 Medicare beneficiaries, which the initial nine hospitals that formed the organization could not have met on their own. e ACO now serves more than 14,000 Medicare beneficiaries. NH Accountable Care Partners (Concord, N.H.). Dover, N.H.- based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and Southern New Hamp- shire Health System in Nashua joined Concord (N.H.) Hospital and Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Hospital to form this ACO in 2012 as part of the Medicare Shared Saving Program. Part- nerships also include Foundation Medical Partners in Norwalk, Conn., and the Elliot Physicians Network. e organization cov- ers more than 40,000 Medicare beneficiaries and includes more than 1,000 healthcare providers. Noble Health Alliance (Fort Washington, Pa.). Composed of Philadelphia-based Aria Health, Springfield, Pa.-based Croz- er-Keystone Health System, Philadelphia-based Einstein Health- care Network and Abington (Pa.) Health, Noble Health Alliance ACO was formed in 2013. In August 2014, Noble partnered with Independence Blue Cross to serve as its sole benefits administra- tor. In 2015, Abington Health ended its ownership participation in the ACO but its physicians and facilities still remain within the provider network. e ACO now includes 15 hospitals, more than 2,200 physicians and dozens of outpatient facilities through southeastern Pennsylvania. Northeast Medical Group (New Haven, Conn.). Northeast Medical Group, a physician group affiliated with Yale New Haven Health System, announced collaborative care agreement in May with Aetna. e group also formed an ACO with Cigna in fall 2012, covering approximately 18,000 people. In July 2014, the NEMG-Cigna partnership launched the Cigna Collaborative Care program, in which NEMG would monitor and coordinate all aspects of the medical care of its beneficiaries. In January, the organization was selected to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Northwestern Medicine (Chicago). Northwestern Medicine, a collaboration between the four-hospital Northwestern Memo- rial HealthCare and Northwestern University's Feinberg School

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