PHOENIX, Dec. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix
Children's Care Network (PCCN) and UnitedHealthcare have launched
an accountable care program that promotes a team approach to health
care and improves quality, lowers costs and enhances the
coordination of people's care.
This new accountable care relationship enables PCCN to treat
patients using an innovative value-based model focused on keeping
people healthy. UnitedHealthcare shares data with PCCN to inform
doctors of patients' underlying medical conditions, past
treatments, gaps in care, medications prescribed and future care
needs. This takes the burden off the child's family 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.
Through this initiative, PCCN and UnitedHealthcare are able to
identify clear, actionable information specific to individual
patients' health needs. This collaboration also improves the
ability to identify patients at high risk, and help them reduce
emergency room visits and readmissions to the hospital, manage
their chronic health conditions and take their needed
medications.
"Our physician-led clinically integrated network of over 100
physicians combined with robust population health analytics and our
comprehensive care management program gives participating PCCN
practices the ability to increase quality and efficiency while
reducing redundancy and health care costs," said Casey Osborne, Vice President, PCCN. "We are
enhancing care coordination across care settings, and our new
accountable care relationship with UnitedHealthcare enables PCCN to
provide improved care to more patients in our community."
Nearly 50,000 people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare's Medicaid
health plans are eligible to benefit from this collaboration.
"UnitedHealthcare and PCCN are committed to ensuring children
have access to the quality care they need and deserve," said
Joseph Gaudio, CEO, UnitedHealthcare
Community Plan of Arizona. "By
collaborating with PCCN, we can create a more connected health care
experience, help improve patient care and enhance people's ability
to live healthier lives."
More than 15 million people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare plans
across the country have access to accountable care programs,
delivered in part through more than 800 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 $54 billion. By the end of 2018, UnitedHealthcare
expects that figure to reach $65
billion.
For more information about UnitedHealthcare's changing
relationships with care providers and how value-based programs are
helping to improve quality and people's health, visit
www.UHC.com/valuebasedcare and download the Value-based Care
Report.
About Phoenix Children's Care Network
Phoenix Children's Care Network is a physician-led,
pediatric-focused, clinically integrated organization that
represents a valuable alliance between and among community
pediatricians and subspecialists, with the collective focus on
improving quality of care while effectively managing associated
costs. It was the first pediatric network in the U.S. to achieve
Utilization Review Accreditation Committee (URAC) accreditation as
a clinically-integrated network. With more than 1,000 providers, it
is the largest pediatric clinically-integrated organization in
Arizona. A total of 85 percent of
specialists and 65 percent of primary care providers in the state
participate in the care network. For access to the very best
pediatric care, make sure PCCN physicians are in your health
insurance network. For more information, visit www.pccn.org.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare 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 @UHC on Twitter.
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