Aledade to Launch Group Well being Heart-Solely MSSP ACO in Virginia

Aledade is working with a number of neighborhood well being facilities (CHCs) to launch Virginia’s first CHC-only accountable care group within the Medicare Shared Financial savings Program subsequent 12 months. Aledade already helps the care of greater than 10,000 Virginians who obtain care via rural well being clinics within the Valley Well being MSSP ACO. 

Nationally, Bethesda, Md.-based Aledade works with greater than 1,500 practices and CHCs in 46 states and the District of Columbia. It shares within the danger and reward throughout greater than 150 value-based contracts representing greater than two million affected person lives underneath administration.

Aledade stated it’s working to convey the advantages of value-based care to sufferers all throughout Virginia, particularly these in underserved communities and those that obtain care via a neighborhood well being middle. The corporate serves as a accomplice to fifteen of Virginia’s 26 CHCs and helps the care of greater than 90 % of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Protect in Virginia’s CHC members in Virginia.

Additional extending its affect in Virginia, Aledade additionally introduced an expanded relationship with Anthem to incorporate Medicaid, which signifies that greater than 150,000 Anthem members in Virginia throughout Medicare Benefit, business insurance coverage and Medicaid may have simpler entry to high-quality major care, together with preventive care and screenings. The partnership will affect greater than 80 practices, 15 well being facilities and 25 rural well being clinics throughout Virginia and covers Medicare Benefit, commercially insured, or Medicaid members.



“As a neighborhood well being middle, we perceive that value-based care is of nice significance to shift the main focus of well being care to be patient-centered and about striving for the absolute best consequence for our sufferers,” stated Barbara Willis, CEO of Hampton Roads Group Well being Heart, in a press release. “This sort of care permits us to give attention to eliminating redundant care, illness prevention, bettering the total affected person expertise and fewer pointless testing. This not solely results in higher total medical value financial savings, nevertheless it has proven to enhance the relationships between medical doctors and their sufferers.”

“We’re already starting to reap the advantages from this partnership seeing rural well being clinics increase entry and supply extra preventive care,” stated Monica Schmude, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Protect in Virginia, in a press release. “These physicians are in a position to focus completely on higher well being outcomes for our members, making a important distinction within the well being of our communities.”

“Each affected person deserves entry to the confirmed advantages of physician-led, value-based care, no matter how they get their well being protection,” stated Ananya Banerjee, chief business officer at Aledade, in a press release. “Due to our distinctive partnership with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Protect in Virginia, we’re guaranteeing this high-quality care reaches sufferers of all ages and in each neighborhood, in order that we are able to shut persistent and troubling gaps in well being fairness and guarantee each Virginian can entry the preventive and first care they should keep wholesome and thrive.”