4 Ohio Health Systems Create New Care Organization

Four Ohio health systems have joined forces to create Health Innovations Ohio, an independent organization that aims to create a fully integrated and aligned care model.

The providers involved in the collaboration include Catholic Health Partners in Cincinnati, Columbus-based Mount Carmel Health System, Akron-based Summa Health System and University Hospitals in Cleveland. Health Innovations Ohio will begin its work by concentrating on Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and population health management for HIO sponsoring systems’ employees and their dependents, according to a news release.

The four health systems first came together to discuss forming HIO in mid-2012 after realizing no statewide provider networks like it existed in the U.S., according to the release.

"Health Innovations Ohio will transform healthcare across the state by fostering value-based care and payment reform throughout our health systems which, taken together, reach more than 22 percent of Ohio's healthcare market," said HIO President and CEO Jim Reber in the release.

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