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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…

Christus (Irving, Texas). The faith-based Catholic system, with more than 60 hospitals and long-term care facilities, decided to get some skin in the ACO game this year. It launched three Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs in January: Christus Physician Group…

CHI Health Partners (Omaha, Neb.). CHI Health Partners, which is doing business as TPN Health Partners, is a newly minted Medicare Shared Savings Program as of January. In Track 1 of the program, it is not responsible for downside risk.…

Carilion Clinic (Roanoke, Va.). Carilion Clinic’s Doctors Connected has been in the Medicare Shared Savings Program since 2013. Participating providers include its primary care physician group, emergency services and four hospitals. Carilion teamed up with Aetna in 2011 on a…

Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (Westwood, Mass.). BIDCO has participated in CMS’ Pioneer ACO program since 2012 and is one of the remaining nine. Data for performance year 2014 shows BIDCO secured $9.85 million in shared savings, the third-most of…

Cigna Healthcare of North Carolina is the latest company to request an injunction in the potential sale of Pioneer Community Hospital of Stokes County in Danbury, N.C., reports Winston-Salem Journal.

Here are 5 statistics that track how Affordable Care Act exchanges across the U.S. have fluctuated between 2014 and 2017, according to Vox.