Community Care Physician Network, UnitedHealthcare to Serve Medicaid Beneficiaries Together in North Carolina
July 09 2018 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Independent care provider group and health plan to work together
to improve care and reduce costs
Community Care Physician Network LLC (CCPN) and UnitedHealthcare
have established a new Advanced Care Medical Home and care
management network relationship, giving North Carolina Medicaid
beneficiaries access to CCPN’s 2,200 independent primary care
providers in counties across the state under the new managed care
system that will launch in 2019.
As a sign of the value they see in the relationship,
UnitedHealthcare and CCPN will work closely together on innovative
approaches to enhancing patient care and reducing health care
costs.
“We’re excited to bring the benefits of CCPN’s high-performing
primary care practices to UnitedHealthcare’s Medicaid beneficiaries
with this new relationship,” said Steve Wegner, M.D., J.D., CEO of
CCPN. “Our clinicians in counties across the state are ready to
work hand-in-hand with UnitedHealthcare to enhance quality, patient
experience, health outcomes and physician satisfaction.”
CCPN clinicians currently deliver health care services to
700,000 North Carolina Medicaid beneficiaries – more than 40
percent of people enrolled in Medicaid, the primary care case
management program. These practices provide critical health
care services in urban and rural counties across the state and care
for a significant portion of North Carolinians with unique and
complex health care needs.
“We are the first health plan to establish a definitive Advanced
Care Medical Home relationship with CCPN because we believe our
work together will lead to innovative approaches to meeting the
needs of the people we serve across the state,” said Anita
Bachmann, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of North Carolina.
“CCPN delivers high-quality health care and, most importantly,
understands its patients, their unique health care needs and the
communities it serves. We believe CCPN’s longstanding history of
physician-driven and patient-focused care will complement
UnitedHealthcare’s local and national experience and innovative
programs.”
This new partnership provides the industry expertise, data and
support that will enable CCPN to treat patients using an innovative
value-based model focused on helping keep people healthy.
UnitedHealthcare shares data with CCPN about patients’ underlying
medical conditions, past treatments, missed care opportunities,
medications prescribed and future care needs. This takes the burden
off patients from having to connect information from each of their
doctor’s visits themselves, and reduces duplicative tests and
improves care coordination across specialties and care
settings.
CCPN and UnitedHealthcare – which has served North Carolina for
more than 20 years – collectively serve nearly 3 million people
statewide.
About CCPNCCPN is a
physician-led, clinically-integrated network that provides
practices with an aligned network focused on delivering
high-quality, effective primary care and an infrastructure to
deliver and coordinate patient care across conditions, providers,
settings and time. CCPN members have a strong focus on
patient-centered care and shared accountability for hitting quality
targets.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people live healthier lives and making the health system work
better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience,
meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. In the United States,
UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.2 million
physicians and care professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other
care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health
benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated
health care facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of
the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare
at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
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UnitedHealthcareJocelyn Parker,
952-931-4265jocelyn.parker@uhc.comorCommunity Care Physician
NetworkPaul Mahoney,
919-745-2434pmahoney@communitycarenc.org
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