Care Coordination

Partners HealthCare (Needham, Mass.). Boston-based Partners HealthCare has two ACOs: one that participates in the Next Generation ACO model and Partners Care Connect, a Medicaid ACO. Partners ACO participated in the Pioneer ACO model for four years, saving roughly $32…

Palm Beach ACO (Palm Springs, Fla.). Palm Beach ACO, a Medicare Shared Savings Program participant, is wholly owned and operated by physicians. The ACO includes 240 primary care and 160 specialist physician members serving more than 51,000 Medicare beneficiaries. In…

OSF HealthCare System (Peoria, Ill.). OSF HealthCare created an ACO under the CMS Pioneer model in 2011 and landed its first commercial accountable care agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois for 40,000 beneficiaries in 2013. The ACO earned…

Optum ACO (Phoenix). Independent physicians across Arizona’s Maricopa County partnered to form Optum ACO. CMS selected Optum ACO to participate in the Next Generation ACO Model in 2016. Optum ACO distributes 20 percent of shared savings to primary care participants…

OneCare Vermont (Colchester). OneCare Vermont works with Medicare, Vermont Medicaid and the Commercial Exchange Shared Saving Programs. ACO participants include multiple hospitals in Vermont, two hospitals in New Hampshire and hundreds of primary and specialty care physicians. OneCare Vermont provides…

Oakwood ACO (Dearborn, Mich.). Oakwood ACO is a partnership between physicians and Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health, which includes more than 1,000 physician members and offers 18-plus health plans. The ACO participates in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and earned…

Northwestern Medicine Physician Partners (Oak Brook, Ill.). Northwestern Medicine Physician Partners is an ACO associated with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine. The ACO includes more than 40 physician groups and individuals. In performance year 2015, ACO participants received 75 percent of the…

Northwell Health ACO (Manhasset, N.Y.). North Shore-LIJ MSSP ACO, known as Northwell Health ACO, was selected to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2016. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health employed physicians, independent physicians and a Medicare fee-for-service…

National Rural Accountable Care Consortium (Beaverton, Ore.). A group of rural physicians and hospital administrators established the National Rural Accountable Care Consortium in 2013. These physicians and administrators formed the first National Rural ACO and developed NRACO Services Corp. in…

Mount Sinai Care (New York City). Mount Sinai Care participates in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The ACO reinvests 50 percent of shared savings into infrastructure and distributes the other 50 percent to ACO participants. In 2014, the ACO makeup…