Arlington, Va.-based Evolent Health has partnered with Macon-based Georgia Physicians for Accountable Care, the largest physician-led accountable care organization in the state.
Evolent Health is a provider of an integrated value-based care platform that has clinical, analytical and financial capabilities.
"Our partnership with Evolent will help us provide additional tools and resources to the more than 630 physicians that make up GPAC, improving the quality of care their patients receive while allowing their affiliated providers to practice medicine in a more meaningful way," Shahriar Sedghi, MD, GPAC's chairman, said in a statement.
The partnership will help ensure physicians have the tools they need to understand the health and risk of their patients, with the goal of steadily increasing the number of patients physicians are able to care for over time.
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