Ascension Health Partners With Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to Provide Patient-Centered Care Through the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model

Abstract

Two of the 32 integrated health networks selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the federal government's Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program are part of Ascension Health. The goal of both participants—Seton Health Alliance in Austin, Texas, and Genesys Physician Hospital Organization (PHO) in Flint, Michigan—is to develop systems in which health care professionals who are not necessarily employed by Ascension Health hospitals engage with the organization in population health strategies that include financial risk taking.