Healthcare Informatics January 19, 2018
Triad HealthCare Network, a subsidiary of Greensboro, North Carolina-based health system Cone Health, is a physician-led accountable care organization (ACO) with a network of more than 1,200 physicians and providers and six hospitals covering patients across five North Carolina counties in what’s known as the Piedmont Triad area, or the north-central region of the state.
In those five counties, Triad HealthCare Network (THN) participates in a number of risk-based contracts with multiple payers, and the contracts vary in ranges of risk from shared savings programs to full-risk contracts. THN covers 84,000 patients through several Medicare Advantage plans (Humana, United Healthcare, Health Team Advantage) and an employer-based plan.
In July 2012, THN was selected to participate in the Centers for Medicare...