What is the CoxHealth Next Generation Accountable Care Organization?
A Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is a type of ACO model implemented through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’s (CMS's) Innovation Center. ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that come together to provide coordinated, high quality care to their Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiaries. Coordinated care helps ensure beneficiaries, especially the chronically ill or those who are hospitalized, get the right care at the right time, and avoid unneeded duplication of services such as lab tests and x-rays. The Next Generation Model offers different methodologies and financial arrangements with higher levels of risk and reward than current Medicare ACO initiatives. Please visit www.medicare.gov/acos.html or call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227 (TTY users should call 1-877-486-2048)) for questions or additional information about Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations.
View Our Provider List
Click the link above to see a list of our participating and preferred providers.
Preferred Facilities
- Quailcreek Skilled Nursing LLC
- N&R of Springfield East LLC (Glendale Gardens)
ACO Participants & Preferred Provider Joint Ventures
There are no joint ventures between or among the ACO and its Participants and/or Preferred Providers.
Key Clinical & Administrative Leadership
| David Raney, VP CoxHealth Network and Business Development |
| Tracy Mitchell, MSHS, RN, CPHQ System Administrative Director, Population Health |
| Timothy Jones, MD, President Cox Medical Group |
| Bryan Finke, MD, Medical Director CoxHealth Accountable Care |
ACO Governing Body
- Bryan Finke, MD, CoxHealth
- Tim Jones, DO, CoxHealth
- Julia Flax, MD, CoxHealth
- Shawn Usery, MD, CoxHealth
- Frank Romero, MD, CoxHealth
- Norm Mechlin, MD, CoxHealth
- Piper Schulte, Springfield Neurological Institute, LLC
- Jake McWay, CoxHealth
- David Raney, CoxHealth
- Max Buetow, CoxHealth
- Robert Ferguson, CoxHealth
- Jerry Jared, Community Member
Shared Savings & Losses
The ACO’s governing board will determine a methodology for the sharing of savings if and when any gains are achieved. CoxHealth Accountable Care has not received any Shared Savings payments to date. If we are able to receive any financial gains from this ACO initiative in the future, these gains would be used to cover the costs that we have already incurred and to support ongoing healthcare delivery.
| Aggregate Amount of Shared Savings/Losses | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate Amount of Shared Savings/Losses Shared savings invested in infrastructure, redesigned care processes, and other resources necessary to improve outcomes and reduce Medicare costs of beneficiaries: | |
| Aggregate Amount of Shared Savings/Losses Performance Year 1 (2018) | TBD |
| Aggregate Amount of Shared Savings/Losses Performance Year 2 (2019) | TBD |
| Aggregate Amount of Shared Savings/Losses Performance Year 3 (2020) | TBD |
| How Shared Savings are Distributed | |
|---|---|
| How Shared Savings are Distributed Shared Savings distributed to Next Generation Participants and Preferred Providers: | |
| How Shared Savings are Distributed Performance Year 1 (2018) | TBD |
| How Shared Savings are Distributed Performance Year 2 (2019) | TBD |
| How Shared Savings are Distributed Performance Year 3 (2020) | TBD |
Quality Performance Results
| Measure | Description | 2108 Results |
|---|---|---|
| Measure ACO-1 | Description CAHPS: Getting Timely Care, Appointments, and Information | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-2 | Description CAHPS: How Well Your Providers Communicate | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-3 | Description CAHPS: Patients’ Rating of Provider | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-4 | Description CAHPS: Access to Specialists | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-5 | Description CAHPS: Health Promotion and Education | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-6 | Description CAHPS: Shared Decision Making | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-7 | Description CAHPS: Health Status/Functional Status | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-34 | Description CAHPS: Stewardship of Patient Resources | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-8 | Description Risk-Standardized, All Condition Readmission | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-35 | Description Skilled Nursing Facility 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure (SNFRM) | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-36 | Description All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Diabetes | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-37 | Description All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Heart Failure | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-38 | Description Chronic Conditions | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-43 | Description Ambulatory Sensitive Condition Acute Composite (AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicator (PQI) #91) | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-12 | Description Medication Reconciliation Post-Discharge | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-13 | Description Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-44 | Description Use of Imaging Studies for Low Back Pain | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-14 | Description Preventive Care and Screening: Influenza Immunization | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-15 | Description Pneumonia Vaccination Status for Older Adults | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-16 | Description Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow Up | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-17 | Description Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-18 | Description Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Clinical Depression and Follow-up Plan | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-19 | Description Colorectal Cancer Screening | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-20 | Description Breast Cancer Screening | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-42 | Description Statin Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-40 | Description Depression Remission at Twelve Months | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure Diabetes Composite ACO-27 and- 41 | Description ACO - 27: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control ACO - 41: Diabetes—Eye Exam | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-28 | Description Hypertension (HTN): Controlling High Blood Pressure | 2108 Results TBD |
| Measure ACO-30 | Description Ischemic Vascular Disease (IVD): Use of Aspirin or Another Antithrombotic | 2108 Results TBD |