ICP is pleased to announce that for the seventh year in a row, the Innovation Care Partners Medicare Shared Savings Program (ICP MSSP) has earned a shared savings payment from Medicare for its outstanding quality and efficiency in 2020.
ICP is pleased to announce that for the seventh year in a row, the Innovation Care Partners Medicare Shared Savings Program (ICP MSSP) has earned a shared savings payment from Medicare for its outstanding quality and efficiency in 2020.
Dr. O'Toole discusses the quality initiatives that have inspired her, including opioid safety in the ambulatory setting and training physicians on advance directives, as well as how the projects changed during COVID.
Heather O’Toole, M.D., chief medical officer at Innovation Care Partners, a clinically integrated network and an accountable care organization in Arizona, received RISE’s highest quality award at this year’s RISE National.
VirtualHealth today announced Innovation Care Partners (ICP), a clinically integrated network and accountable care organization, is live on the HELIOS® platform, the leading SaaS care management solution.
The Hertel Report recently released their Arizona 2021 ACO VBN Data Edition, providing facts, figures, and insight into the current landscape of ACOs and value-based payment arrangements in the state of Arizona. See how Innovation Care Partners stacks up against other ACOs in the market.
Innovation Care Partners was recently featured in the Fall 2020 Virtual Town Hall hosted by HonorHealth. Watch as Dr. Petrides, ICP CEO, joins Todd LaPorte, HonorHealth CEO, to discuss the past and future of Innovation Care Partners.
Innovation Care Partners (ICP), an affiliate of HonorHealth, is pleased to announce that for the sixth year in a row, the Innovation Care Partners Medicare Shared Savings Program, formerly Scottsdale Health Partners MSSP, has earned a shared savings payment from Medicare for its outstanding quality and efficiency in 2019.
TORONTO – There are still a lot of questions about how the province’s Ontario Health Teams will function and how much they will accomplish.
Technology at its finest. Innovation Care Partners along with TigerConnect, are increasing physician communication while providing better patient care! Please take a moment to view our ICP leaders discussing how we implemented TigerConnect in to our organization.
Innovation Care Partners, an affiliate of HonorHealth, announces that for the fourth year in a row, Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP) Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has earned a shared savings payment from Medicare for its outstanding quality and efficiency in 2017...
PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NextGate, a global leader in healthcare enterprise identification, announced today that Innovation Care Partners (ICP), an affiliate of HonorHealth, has selected its Provider Registry to deliver a trusted, centralized view of provider data across its physician-led clinically integrated network and accountable care organization. The implementation will create a flexible, enterprise-wide platform for efficiently managing ICP's entire network of providers....
A 66-year old patient — let's call him Lewis — was in and out of the hospital battling symptoms of his uncontrolled COPD. He was severely depressed — scoring at 20 out of 27 on the PHQ-9 questionnaire that screens for depression. And he hadn't traveled in five years...
Skeptics have been critical of the accountable care organization model not meeting expectations, even though the concept is in line with the move from fee-for-service to value...
Editors from Health Data Management spent several days at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas last week. After attending many educational sessions, meetings with vendors and other professional groups, and discussions with dozens of attendees, the following major trends emerged from the industry’s largest show, suggesting that they will impact the use of IT in healthcare...
The healthcare industry is moving away from fee-for-service into quality, outcomes-based financial models, but we’re not quite there yet. For most providers, hospitals, and health systems, switching to a value-based model is a top priority. However, making the leap is easier said than done...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 15, 2017 / PRNewswire-USNewswire / -- Innovation Care Partners, an affiliate of HonorHealth, announces that for the third year in a row, Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP) Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has earned a shared savings payment from Medicare for its outstanding quality and efficiency in 2016. Other accomplishments include:...
Hospitals, post-acute care organizations, and payers need to develop solid relationships and work well together in order to make an accountable care organization (ACO) arrangement successful...
Innovation Care Partners (ICP) is pleased to welcome Savas Petrides, MD to the Chief Executive Officer role at ICP...
Healthcare models are moving more and more towards performance-based incentives and results, and Innovation Care Partners (ICP), which is affiliated with Honor Health, is dedicated to improving patient health and reducing healthcare spend through collaboration, coordination, and communication in the community. Join us as we interview Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jim Whitfill and Senior Director of Care Management, Karen Vanaskie. For more information about ICP, visit http://www.icphealth.com Dr. Jim & Karen
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced over 359,000 clinicians are confirmed to participate in four of CMS’s Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in 2017...
Here in the pages of HMT we sometimes see the same faces. For this Rising Stars feature, we wanted to do something a little different. The leaders you’ll read about in this article have never appeared in HMT before – though thanks to their friends and colleagues who nominated each of them for their unique passions, they are on our radar now....
Arizona Medicare ACOs: Arizona Connected Care, Banner Health Network, Commonwealth Primary Care ACO, Revere Health and Scottsdale Health Partners earned shared savings...
Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP)—now known as Innovation Care Partners, an affiliate of HonorHealth—is a physician-led clinical integration network (CIN), and Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) participant...
At a time when many accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for ACOs are struggling to meet the cost-savings and quality-outcomes benchmarks set for them by senior officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a minority of the MSSP ACOs are doing very well...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced the 2015 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model that show physicians, hospitals and health care providers participating in Accountable Care Organizations continue to make significant improvements in the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries, while achieving cost savings...
Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP) is an organization strategically positioned to transform health care delivery within the local community as it works to provide comprehensive care...
The 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey unveiled at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas paints an optimistic picture surrounding the emerging trend of connectivity within the healthcare ecosystem. With more than 50 percent of respondents indicating their hospital currently uses three or more connected…
Scottsdale Health Partners has improved coordinated care on both a physical and virtual level through the creation of a secure texting connection for real-time collaboration, James Whitfill, MD, chief medical officer of Scottsdale Health Partners, explained at the National Association of Accountable Care Organization's Spring 2016 Conference…
Scottsdale Health Partners has used IT and care coordinators to get physicians and hospitals working hand-in-hand in a value based environment. Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP) is more than just a joint venture between the HonorHealth (formerly Scottsdale Healthcare) hospital system and approximately 700 physicians…
Orion Health at HIMSS16 will unveil a data platform aimed at enabling precision maedicine anda new management app geared towards participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization Program. The new iteration of Amadeus, for instance, is meant to help providers to move from the "who" of population health…
Orion Health, a population health management and healthcare integration company, today announced it will showcase client success stories at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2016 Annual Conference & Exhibition via mainstage presentations and in-booth demonstrations. Additionally, at HIMSS…
Scottsdale Health Partners (SHP), a physician-led clinical integration network, was formed in 2012 and has quickly grown to 700 physicians serving 35,000 patients throughout the greater Scottsdale, Arizona community. SHP consists of 115 primary care physicians and the balance are specialists from a wide variety of specialties…
Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs need a purpose-built MSSP Management solution to streamline the complexities of participating in the MSSP. Being an MSSP ACO comes with considerable administrative and compliance requirements that can be time and resource intensive without applying purpose-built technologies…
The nation’s healthcare system has reached a critical moment in its evolution. Healthcare organiza- tions across the United States are investing significant resources in re-architecting care delivery infrastructures to adapt successfully to new value-based models. As we go “at risk” and accept outcome-based payments, we face a broad set of challenges—one of the most critical being development of the right IT infrastructure…
A Medicare experiment that encourages doctors and hospitals to work in tandem to improve care while saving taxpayers money has produced mixed results in Arizona. Six out of 10 Arizona health systems participating in Medicare’s “accountable care” programs spent more money than Medicare projected last year, and one program broke even. Another three health systems saved Medicare money compared to what the agency projected spending…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued 2014 quality and financial performance results showing that more Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) continue to generate financial savings while improving the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries by fostering greater collaboration between doctors, hospitals, and health care providers…
In Arizona, only two active MSSP ACOs beat their targets and only one earns a share of the savings Nationally, 92 of 333 MSSPs hold spending to $806 million below targets and earn $341 million in shared savings. There were 89 ACOs that reduced healthcare costs below their benchmark, but did not save enough to qualify for shared savings. Overall savings generated for CMS from the MSSP program was $465 million in 2014…
Sending important patient information via emails or pages can cause a lag time on responses, a longer stay for patients and added costs for the facility. But by utilizing a text messaging technology that physicians and staff already use, you can streamline the entire process from when a patient is admitted to your facility until discharge…
During a panel at HIMSS this week, payer, pharmacist, physician and hospital folks all came together to chew over what's blocking their organizations from transitioning into value-based care. CHICAGO — Everyone is maneuvering into a position of strength in the new world of health care — be it payers, pharmacists, hospitals or doctors — while still paying the bills in the old one. What's the biggest obstacle standing in each organization's path, and is it the same from field to field?…
Innovation Care Partners (SHP) is a physician-led Clinical Integration Network and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) aiming to transform care delivery in the Arizona community. It is a joint venture formed by Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network (SLHN) and the Scottsdale Physician Organization, which is comprised of over 600 community physicians. SHP's network o ers a world-class healthcare network of hospitals, physicians and clinicians that provides patients with a comprehensive, cohesive and integrated experience from their doctor’s o ce to the hospital to ongoing care settings…
Innovation Care Partners and Cigna Corp. are teaming up to launch a collaborative accountable care initiative. Collaborative accountable care is Cigna’s approach to accomplishing the same goals as accountable care organizations, without creating a formal ACO. The initiative is designed to improve patient access to health care, enhance care coordination and reduce costs…