Three hospitals in New Hampshire joined Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Pioneer accountable care organization Jan. 1, and the ACO has been renamed "allwell."
The three new ACO members are Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, St. Joseph Healthcare in Nashua and Exeter (N.H.) Health Resources. The ACO now covers 46,700 Medicare patients and has five member organizations.
In the Pioneer ACO's first year of operation, it generated savings and met all quality benchmarks under the program. "We believe we're on the right track, and the addition[s]…will enable us to extend those gains as we move away from fee-for-service payment models to a value-based model," Barbara Walters, DO, senior medical director for regional practices at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and allwell leader, said in a news release.
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