Aledade and Azara Healthcare Partner to Strengthen Support to Community Health Centers
2024年6月27日 - 11:30PM
Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care,
and Azara Healthcare, the Best in KLAS provider of population
health and value-based care solutions, announced today a
partnership to empower the nation’s community health centers to
thrive under value-based care arrangements. Community health
centers, also known as federally qualified health centers, provide
primary care and dental services, regardless of an individual’s
ability to pay, in historically marginalized areas throughout the
United States.
The partnership enables mutual clients to combine Aledade’s
playbook – composed of a proprietary technology platform and
in-person coaching – with actionable data and analytics provided by
Azara Healthcare’s population health and value-based care platform,
Azara DRVS, to help community health centers deliver better care to
the patients they serve.
“Community health centers provide the backbone of primary care
for our nation’s historically marginalized communities,” said Peggy
Evans, Vice President of Community Health Center Performance at
Aledade. “We have had a longstanding commitment at Aledade to
support preventive, coordinated care that generates better outcomes
at these centers while also improving their financial
sustainability. Azara Healthcare shares this commitment, and we are
excited to partner with them so these centers can fulfill their
mission to provide quality and compassionate primary and preventive
care.”
With this partnership, Azara will share critical patient data
with Aledade and mutual clients, empowering participating
community health centers with clear summaries of patient needs,
leading to better patient visits and helping ensure no opportunity
to deliver necessary care is missed. These data-driven insights
better position mutual clients to meet patient needs and improve
health outcomes.
“Our partnership dramatically strengthens community health
centers that focus on ACO models, whether it’s Medicaid, Medicare
Advantage, the Medicare Shared Savings Program, ACO REACH or ACO
Primary Care Flex, which launches in January 2025 and is designed
to advance health equity,” Evans added.
Recent research shows the power of a unified solution to support
value-based care program needs regardless of whether providers
choose to take the journey into value-based care on their own, with
other healthcare groups, or in partnership with a value-based care
physician enablement company such as Aledade. Value-based care
physician enablement companies open new opportunities for providers
and health plans to access the support they need to maximize
resources and fulfill their contracts.
“Azara Healthcare and Aledade understand the unique challenges
Community Health Centers face,” said Jeff Brandes, President &
CEO of Azara Healthcare. “Sharing DRVS data with Aledade provides a
new level of value-based care enablement and empowers our health
center clients to deliver better care and achieve financial
stability. We look forward to working with Aledade and our mutual
clients to further enhance the capabilities of the Azara platform
to deliver high value information within existing DRVS clinical
workflows. Our provider clients have been very clear that they need
a consistent way to prepare and care for patients, regardless of
contract or insurance type.”
Aledade and Azara Healthcare both have deep experience in
empowering community health centers to succeed in value-based care
payment models. In 2022, 99% of Aledade’s more than 200 community
health center members – located in 37 states – earned shared
savings. This equated, under the Medicare Shared Savings Program,
to a total of $53.5 million in earnings that enabled these centers
to hire additional staff as well as improve health equity and
expand services for the more than 440,000 patients who receive care
through Aledade partnerships.
Azara Healthcare’s award-winning population health platform
unifies clinical, health plan, health information exchanges and
social determinants of health data to deliver a complete picture of
patient health. Azara solutions empower nearly 600 community health
centers in 42 states to improve the quality and efficiency of care
for more than 25 million Americans through actionable data.
"We are very excited to see Aledade and Azara Healthcare, two of
our strategic partners working together on behalf of our community
health center members. We believe that this represents a meaningful
first step in simplifying the flow of the critical data necessary
for our members’ providers to be successful, and we look forward to
seeing this develop into a true bi-directional data exchange that
will be able to directly impact our members’ patient care
workflows." said Joseph Grice, Chief Value Officer, Community
Health Center Association of Mississippi.
Hiran Ratnayake
Aledade
(302) 299-3562
hratnayake@aledade.com
John Gonda
Sage Growth Partners
jgonda@sage-growth.com