What You Should Know:
– Aledade has announced an expanded collaboration with Humana, designed to bolster the ability of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics to succeed in value-based care.
– The enhanced partnership aims to improve health outcomes, enhance quality of life, and increase healthcare affordability and accessibility for patients.
Empower FQHCs and Rural Clinics in Value-Based Care
By providing upfront resources, comprehensive support, and a realistic timeframe for achieving success in value-based care models, the expanded collaboration offers Aledade’s FQHC and rural health clinic partners in 26 states a greater opportunity to share in savings within Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage serves as a private health insurance alternative to traditional Medicare.
Aledade collaborates with over 300 health centers across the United States, supporting primary care organizations of all sizes in diverse rural, suburban, and urban settings. Notably, nearly two-thirds of these health centers are located in areas designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
The effectiveness of Aledade’s approach was clearly demonstrated in 2023. All eight of Aledade’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) exclusively composed of health centers achieved shared savings. Collectively, they realized a 6.12% savings rate, translating to $423 in shared savings per beneficiary.
“This is the latest step in our long-standing collaboration with Humana to respond to the unique and evolving needs of our health center partners,” said Farzad Mostashari, M.D., Aledade’s co-founder and CEO. “It recognizes the challenges that health centers must address to provide high quality, preventive care to high needs populations and demonstrates our commitment to addressing health care disparities. We are deeply grateful to Humana for their efforts to allow our health center partners to be even more successful in value-based care and meet the needs of the patients and communities they tirelessly serve.”
