Modern Healthcare March 4, 2017
For the Accountable Care Coalition of Southeast Texas and the Accountable Care Coalition of Chesapeake, joining Medicare’s Next Generation ACO model simply made sense. They took on significant financial risk in that new model, but it also gave them a great deal of flexibility to change the way they cared for patients.
“We felt this was a great next step for our physicians,” said Jeff Spight, the president of Collaborative Health Systems, a division of Universal American that runs those ACOs and 16 others as joint ventures with physicians. “It gives physicians a lot more tools and capabilities, and it gives them structure to take the next steps in terms of managing populations.”
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