DeKalb Physician Hospital Organization and UnitedHealthcare to Improve Patients’ Care in Georgia
June 23 2016 - 12:40PM
Business Wire
- Accountable care collaboration to
enhance how the health system cares for patients
- Innovative physician-directed
network focused on collaborative care delivery
- More resources committed to sharing
information and coordinating patient care
DeKalb Physician Hospital Organization (DPHO) and
UnitedHealthcare have launched an accountable care program to
improve people’s health and their satisfaction with their health
care experience.
The new accountable care program will dedicate more resources to
care coordination and make it easier to share important health
information. DPHO member hospitals and physicians will share in the
resulting savings generated through providing care under a
value-based, patient-centric care model focused on keeping people
healthy.
More than 250,000 people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare’s
employer-sponsored health plans are eligible to benefit from this
collaboration.
Many people who have gone to the doctor or hospital –
particularly those with complex or chronic illnesses – have found
they often have to connect information from each of their doctor’s
visits themselves, and have sometimes received duplicative tests or
care that isn’t coordinated.
Through this collaboration, UnitedHealthcare and DPHO will work
together to better coordinate patients’ care, using shared
technology, timely data and information about emergency room visits
and hospital admissions. This partnership will also provide
services to help patients manage their chronic health conditions by
enhancing relationships with their personal physicians and
encouraging healthy lifestyles.
“Our multispecialty physician leadership and population health
analytics have given network practices the ability to increase
quality and efficiency while reducing redundancy and health care
costs,” said DPHO Board Chairman Dr. Albert Wildstein. “We are
enhancing care coordination across care settings, and our
partnership with UnitedHealthcare enables the network to provide
improved care to more patients in our community.”
“UnitedHealthcare and DPHO are working together to help people
receive more personalized and better connected care, which will
significantly enhance people’s ability to live healthier lives,”
said Garland Scott, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of Georgia.
UnitedHealthcare will supplement DPHO’s own data to help support
overall population health, giving the entire care team clear,
actionable data about individual patients’ health needs, potential
gaps in care and proactive identification of high-risk patients.
Patient navigators may also be used to support community-based care
coordination, such as helping with planning after a patient is
discharged from the hospital and scheduling follow-up
appointments.
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 1.2 million Georgians with
network of 168 hospitals and nearly 25,000 physicians and other
care providers statewide.
More than 14 million people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare plans
across the country have access to accountable care programs,
delivered in part through more than 750 accountable care
arrangements nationwide as the organization engages in deeper, more
collaborative relationships with physicians and hospitals.
Care providers nationwide are showing strong interest in a shift
to value-based care. UnitedHealthcare’s total payments to
physicians and hospitals that are tied to value-based arrangements
have tripled in the last three years to more than $48 billion. By
the end of 2018, UnitedHealthcare expects that figure to reach $65
billion.
For more information about UnitedHealthcare’s full spectrum of
value-based initiatives, visit www.UHC.com/valuebasedcare.
About DeKalb Physician Hospital
OrganizationDeKalb Physician Hospital Organization
(DPHO) was incorporated in 1994 as a nonprofit organization to
improve the quality and availability of health care services to the
community served by DeKalb Medical Center, in Decatur, Georgia and
its affiliated physicians and their practices. Today, DPHO
continues to carry out that mission by operating as a clinically
integrated network of over 500 physicians and the 3 hospitals of
DeKalb Medical (DeKalb Medical at North Decatur, DeKalb Medical at
Hillandale, and DeKalb Medical at Downtown Decatur) whose primary
goal is to work collaboratively to provide coordinated,
high-quality, cost-effective patient care with improved
outcomes.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
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UnitedHealthcareTracey Lempner,
770-300-3573tracey.lempner@uhc.comorDeKalb Physician Hospital
OrganizationSusan Helton,
404-501-6027Susan.Helton@DeKalbMedical.org
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