Provider, payor ally to drive accountable care into central Pa.
Two healthcare organizations serving central Pennsylvania—a provider and a payor—are teaming up to form what they are calling an Accountable Care Arrangement (ACA). According to a joint release from PinnacleHealth and Capital BlueCross, the alliance will work to decrease utilization of acute-care services.
Under the arrangement, Capital BlueCross will provide dedicated nursing resources, access to technology and “critical analytics” to PinnacleHealth’s physicians.
The organizations said they will use population-based clinical data to deliver “highly personalized medical care, resulting in increased doctor-patient face time.”
The two further said the arrangement would enable “a more integrated approach to the delivery of medical services” to more than 25,000 patients, adding that it follows as an extension of a partnership they forged while rolling out a pilot for a patient-centered medical home in 2010.
Both Capital BlueCross, a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and PinnacleHealth, which runs multiple facilities orbiting four main campuses, are headquartered in Harrisburg.
Under the arrangement, Capital BlueCross will provide dedicated nursing resources, access to technology and “critical analytics” to PinnacleHealth’s physicians.
The organizations said they will use population-based clinical data to deliver “highly personalized medical care, resulting in increased doctor-patient face time.”
The two further said the arrangement would enable “a more integrated approach to the delivery of medical services” to more than 25,000 patients, adding that it follows as an extension of a partnership they forged while rolling out a pilot for a patient-centered medical home in 2010.
Both Capital BlueCross, a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and PinnacleHealth, which runs multiple facilities orbiting four main campuses, are headquartered in Harrisburg.
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