Marshfield Clinic: demonstrating the potential of accountable care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case studies of accountable care systems (Commonwealth Fund)
- Author(s):
- Klein, Sarah, author McCarthy, Douglas, author Cohen, Alexander, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, October 2014
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Accountable Care Organizations Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration Cost Savings -- economics Electronic Health Records Group Practice Medicare -- economics Organizational Case Studies Patient Care Management Patient-Centered Care Quality Improvement Humans United States Wisconsin
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Marshfield Clinic, a nonprofit multispecialty group practice in central Wisconsin, joined Medicare's Shared Savings Program in 2013, following its success in Medicare's Physician Group Practice demonstration--the program's forerunner. The clinic's Medicare ACO benefits from the organization's past investment in advanced primary care infrastructure and disease-specific care management capabilities, which have yielded reductions in hospitalization and readmission rates. The clinic has an advanced, internally developed electronic health record system and enterprise data warehouse, which allow internal performance reporting and identification of best practices that have galvanized physician support for quality improvement efforts. Marshfield Clinic's track record of achieving cost savings and quality targets set by Medicare suggests the importance of combining mission-driven performance improvement initiatives with a commitment to mutual accountability among providers in group practice.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101656744 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101656744