More than 20,000 patients who are enrolled in UnitedHealthcare’s employer-sponsored health benefit plans have access to the ACO.
Providers in the ACO will be eligible for payment incentives based on improvements in metrics such as hospital readmissions, disease management and prevention, patient safety, total cost savings and patient satisfaction scores, according to the news release.
“The traditional healthcare model rewards volume-based medicine rather than emphasizing quality. We are excited to start the journey with UnitedHealthcare toward incentives for quality-based care, with the primary care provider at the center of patient-oriented healthcare,” Ken Nielsen, president and CEO of Physician Health Partners, said in the release.
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