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Franciscan Alliance (Mishawaka, Ind.). Franciscan Alliance launched an ACO with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana in July 2014 that covered 60,000 patients. Within its first full year, the ACO generated nearly $22 million in cost savings and…

Essentia Health (Duluth, Minn.). Essentia Health launched a Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO in July 2012, and within a year it became one of the first six ACOs in the nation to earn Level 2 ACO designation from the National…

Dignity Health (San Francisco). Dignity Health was an early ACO adopter. It operated a pilot ACO program in 2009 with Blue Shield of California and San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians Medical Group for roughly 44,000 state employees. After reducing hospital…

Delaware Valley ACO (Villanova, Pa.). Delaware Valley ACO joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2014, and in its first performance year saw significant success. Of 333 ACOs in the program, DVACO ranked among the top 10 for shared savings,…

DeKalb PHO (Decatur, Ga.) The nonprofit DeKalb Physician Hospital Organization has seen a flurry of ACO activity so far this year. Most recently, DeKalb PHO entered into ACO contracts with commercial payers UnitedHealthcare and Humana. It already operates a collaborative…

Deaconess Care Integration (Evansville, Ind.). Deaconess Care Integration got its start with Medicare ACOs in 2012 when it joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The ACO included primary care physicians from across the six-hospital Deaconess Health System. Based on its…

Cornerstone Health Enablement Strategic Solutions (High Point, N.C.). CHESS, a physician-led healthcare services company owned by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Cornerstone Health Care in High Point, joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2015. After…

Collaborative Health ACO (Natick, Mass.). Collaborative Health ACO embarked on its fourth year in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in January. It is in Track 3, which includes the most downside risk but also the most potential for reward. Collaborative…

Coastal Medical (Providence, R.I.). Coastal Medical, a physician-led medical group serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has participated in the Medicare Shared Savings Program since 2012. Coastal Medical’s 2014 overall quality score of 94.58 percent put it among the top three…

Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, told The Wall Street Journal in 2012 he didn’t want to jump into ACOs too soon. Rather, he said the system wanted to wait until some of the learning was done and…