Population Health
Reduce Healthcare Costs and Improve Quality for Patients
NPG Health Collaborative, LLC (NPG Health) began an independent Accountable Care Organization (ACO) January 1, 2017. NPG Health includes over 150 providers who serve 13 critical access hospitals in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas.
As an ACO, NPG Health provides members the ability to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. This program aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare quality for patients using Medicare. Our goal is to improve health and wellness in rural communities throughout the region.
More recent population health initiatives and developments are supported through The Independent Health Network (IHN).
Reduce Healthcare Costs and Improve Quality for Patients
NPG Health Collaborative, LLC (NPG Health) began an independent Accountable Care Organization (ACO) January 1, 2017. NPG Health includes over 150 providers who serve 14 rural hospitals in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas.
As an ACO, NPG Health provides members the ability to participate in the medicare Shared Savings Program. This program aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare quality for patients using Medicare. Our goal is to improve health and wellness in rural communities throughout the region.
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What is an ACO?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients.
The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors.
When an ACO succeeds both in delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars more wisely, it will share in the savings it achieves for the Medicare program.