Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, the largest healthcare provider in New Hampshire, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield have launched a pilot payment program to prepare for an accountable care organization, according to a release from Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
The release revealed little about the pilot, except to say Anthem and Dartmouth-Hitchcock would collect and analyze data to "identify and implement efficiencies and improvements in healthcare delivery."
"We view this as another of our steps toward changing the way health care is delivered," said Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health President Thomas A. Colacchio, MD. "The concept is to bring together the hospital, the physician group practice, and the insurance carrier all with the same goal – to provide high quality, cost-effective care to those we serve."
Dartmouth-Hitchcock, which includes a 900-physician group practice, has a strong background in ACOs. It has earned $13 million so far in the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration, the model for ACOs, and the term ACO was coined by Elliot Fisher, MD, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School.
Read the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health release on accountable care organizations.
Learn more about Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health:
- Insights From the Most Successful Model for ACOs: Q&A With Barbara Walters of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic on the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration
- 5 Steps Academic Medical Centers Should Take to Build ASCs
- New Hampshire Attorney General Objects to Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Catholic Medical Center Affiliation
The release revealed little about the pilot, except to say Anthem and Dartmouth-Hitchcock would collect and analyze data to "identify and implement efficiencies and improvements in healthcare delivery."
"We view this as another of our steps toward changing the way health care is delivered," said Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health President Thomas A. Colacchio, MD. "The concept is to bring together the hospital, the physician group practice, and the insurance carrier all with the same goal – to provide high quality, cost-effective care to those we serve."
Dartmouth-Hitchcock, which includes a 900-physician group practice, has a strong background in ACOs. It has earned $13 million so far in the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration, the model for ACOs, and the term ACO was coined by Elliot Fisher, MD, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School.
Read the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health release on accountable care organizations.
Learn more about Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health:
- Insights From the Most Successful Model for ACOs: Q&A With Barbara Walters of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic on the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration
- 5 Steps Academic Medical Centers Should Take to Build ASCs
- New Hampshire Attorney General Objects to Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Catholic Medical Center Affiliation