CVS Accountable Care Organization, a division of CVS Health, will collaborate with Catholic Health and Catholic Health Physician Partner’s ACO to expand value-based care and healthcare access for Medicare beneficiaries across the Catholic Health Physician Network in the New York area.
The partnership builds on Catholic Health’s ACOs program, improving care for over 40,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Nassau and Suffolk counties and saving millions of dollars by meeting quality and total cost of care goals, reports Drug Store News.
Catholic Health and CVS ACO will jointly assume accountability for the health care of nearly 40,000 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries under the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health program.
The new collaboration, the first of its kind on Long Island, will help to strengthen care coordination for patients by providing customized support, such as home-based care, transportation support for annual wellness visits and linkages to services for addressing social determinants of health. Read more.
