Insurers and providers partnered to form the following eight accountable care organizations or value-based care delivery arrangements within the past month, beginning with those most recently covered by Becker's Hospital Review.
Note: No. 7 includes two ACOs.
1. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas announced they would launch a statewide ACO in January 2015.
2. Munson Healthcare, an eight-hospital system based in Traverse City, Mich., signed a three-year value-based reimbursement agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
3. Cigna joined forces with physicians affiliated with Boulder (Colo.) Community Hospital's Community Medical Associates to launch a collaborative accountable care initiative.
4. Optima Health, the health plan of Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare, formed an accountable care organization network with Johnson City, Tenn.-based Integrated Solutions Health Network, an affiliated company of Mountain States Health Alliance.
5. Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health System and Independence Blue Cross reached a two-year contract deal centered on accountable care payments.
6. The Boice-Willis Clinic, a multispecialty physician-owned practice in Rocky Mount, N.C., inked a collaborative accountable care initiative deal with Cigna.
7. Cigna launched two collaborative accountable care initiatives, one with Santa Clara County IPA in San Jose, Calif., and another with Patient Physician Network in Plano, Texas.