Insurers and providers partnered to form the following eight accountable care organizations within the past month, beginning with those most recently covered by Becker's Hospital Review.
1. WellSpan Health in York, Pa., partnered with Aetna for an ACO — the insurer's first ACO in Pennsylvania.
2. Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Health System in New Brunswick, N.J., are collaborating to form a potential Medicare ACO. The ACO is called Robert Wood Johnson Partners. Different academic disciplines at Rutgers will work with the ACO to find the best way to cut costs and become patient centered.
3. Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and North Memorial Health Care in Robbinsdale, Minn., partnered with health insurer Medica to create Fairview and North Memorial Vantage with Medica, Minnesota's largest ACO.
4. Anthem Blue Cross expanded its accountable care network to 11 members with the addition of the UCLA Medical Group in Los Angeles and the Humboldt-Del Norte Independent Practice Association based in Eureka, Calif.
5. San Diego-based Sharp Community Medical Group, an independent practice association with more than 700 participating physicians, and Aetna formed an accountable care collaboration.
6. Quality Health Solutions, a collaborative of health systems in Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, formed an accountable care initiative with UnitedHealthcare. When the ACO launches Jan. 1, 2014, it will be one of the first multiple-system ACOs in the country.
7. New Hanover Regional Medical Center and multispecialty medical group practice Wilmington Health, both based in Wilmington, N.C., are launching an accountable care alliance with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.
8. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas formed a partnership with Memorial Hermann ACO, the ACO of Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System. The partnership is set to start in the middle of 2014.
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