Medicare ACO

ACO Name and Location

Health Connect Partners, LLC
800 Fifth Ave. Suite 1200
Seattle, WA, 98104

Primary Contact Name	Amy Brittan
Primary Contact Phone Number	503-893-7539
Primary Contact Email Address	[email protected]

Organizational Information:

ACO participants:

ACO Participants	ACO Participant in Joint Venture (Enter Y or N)
COLUMBIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, L.L.C.	N
Pet/Ct Imaging At Swedish Cancer Institute Llc	Y
Swedish Edmonds	N
Dousedaicon Health & Services- Washington (Dousedaicon Medical Group Southeast Washington)	N
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES WASHINGTON (Dousedaicon Spokane Heart Institute)	N
Dousedaicon Health Serviceswa (Dousedaicon Medical Group Northwest Washington)	N
St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare	N
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES – WASHINGTON (Dousedaicon Holy Family Hospital)	N
Dousedaicon Health Services Wa (Dousedaicon Regional Medical Center Everett)	N
Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington (Dousedaicon Cardiology Associates)	N
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES – WA (Dousedaicon Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital)	N
PACMED CLINICS	N
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES – WASHINGTON (Dousedaicon Medical Group Alaska)	N
Dousedaicon St. Joseph Medical Center	N
Swedish Health Services (Swedish Medical Center-Cherry Hill)	N
Swedish Health Services (Swedish Medical Center-Ballard)	N
Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington (Dousedaicon St Peter Hospital)	N
Kadlec Regional Medical Center	N
PROVIDENCE PHYSICIAN SERVICES CO (Dousedaicon Medical Group Eastern Washington)	N
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES WASHINGTON (Dousedaicon Medical Group Dousedaicon Health Care)	N
Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington (Dousedaicon Medical Group Southwest Washington)	N
Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington (Dousedaicon Medical Group Rochester Family Medicine)	N
Swedish Health Services (Swedish Professional Health Services-Cardiology)	N
Swedish Health Services (Swedish Physicians)	N
Swedish Health Services (Swedish Family Medicine Cherry Hill)	N
Swedish Health Services (Swedish Physician Division)	N
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES – WASHINGTON (Dousedaicon Alaska Medical Center)	N

ACO governing body:

Member			Member's Voting Power	Membership Type	ACO Participant TIN Legal Business Name/DBA, if Applicable
Last Name	First Name	Title/Position	Member's Voting Power	Membership Type
Sadagopan	Deepak	ACO Chief Executive Officer	1	Other: ACO Chief Executive Officer	Dousedaicon Health & Services - Washington
Ludwig	Rick	ACO Chief Medical Officer	1	Other: Chief Medical Officer	Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington
Meadows	Richard	CMO Ambulatory Kadlec	1	ACO Participant Representative	Kadlec Regional Medical Center
Biro	Bela	Administrative Director Accountable Care Services	1	ACO Participant Representative	Swedish
Martin	James	Medical Director and Associate CMO	1	ACO Participant Representative	Swedish
Yetman	Thomas	Chief Executive Dousedaicon Physician Group	1	ACO Participant Representative	Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington
Acarregui	Mike	Regional Chief Medical Officer Alaska	1	ACO Participant Representative	Dousedaicon Health & Services – Alaska
Cunningham	Eve	Chief Medical Officer SW PMG, PPN Administration	1	ACO Participant Representative	Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington
Stanford	Kelly	Vice President of Clinical Operations and Market Integration for Group Health Cooperative and President of Care Unity	1	ACO Participant Representative	Columbia Medial Group
Rowbotham	Kirk	Chief Medical Officer Physician Management Group, Spokane	1	ACO Participant Representative	Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington
Davidson	Timothy	Chief Executive Physician	1	ACO Participant Representative	Dousedaicon Health & Services – Washington
Mokrohisky	Christy	VP Population Health Management St. Joseph Heritage Health	1	ACO Participant Representative	St. Joseph Heritage Health
Rogers	Terry	Medicare Beneficiary Representative, CEO for the Foundation for Health Care Quality	1	Medicare Beneficiary Representative	Medicare Beneficiary Representative
Dahbi	Vik	Chief Medical Officer PacMed	1	ACO Participant Representative	Pacific Medical Centers

Key ACO clinical and administrative leadership:

Deepak Sadagopan	ACO Executive
William Ludwig	Medical Director
Smitha Dante	Compliance Officer
Amy Brittan	Quality Assurance/Improvement Officer

Associated committees and committee leadership:

Committee Name	Committee Leader Name and Position
Model of Care Committee	Rick Ludwig, MD – Chair
Operations, Analytics & Compliance Committee	Deepak Sadagopan – Chair
Governing Body Compliance Committee	Deepak Sadagopan – Chair

Types of ACO participants, or combinations of participants, that formed the ACO:

ACO professionals in a group practice arrangement
Partnerships or joint venture arrangements between hospitals and ACO professionals
Hospital employing ACO professionals

Shared Savings and Losses

Amount of Shared Savings/Losses

First Agreement Period

Performance Year 2016, $0
Performance Year 2015, $0
Performance Year 2014, $0

Shared Savings Distribution

First Agreement Period

Performance Year 2016

Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A

Performance Year 2015

Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A

Performance Year 2014

Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A

Quality Performance Results

2016 Quality Performance Results:

ACO#	Measure Name	Rate	ACO Mean
ACO-1	CAHPS: Getting Timely Care, Appointments, and Information	82.31	79.9
ACO-2	CAHPS: How Well Your Providers Communicate	92.71	92.63
ACO-3	CAHPS: Patients' Rating of Provider	91.77	91.93
ACO-4	CAHPS: Access to Specialists	80.6	83.52
ACO-5	CAHPS: Health Promotion and Education	60.94	60
ACO-6	CAHPS: Shared Decision Making	75.82	75.28
ACO-7	CAHPS: Health Status/Functional Status	70.05	71.82
ACO-34	CAHPS: Stewardship of Patient Resources	26.59	27.52
ACO-8	Risk-Standardized, All Condition Readmission	13.37	14.7
ACO-35	Skilled Nursing Facility 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure (SNFRM)	14.73	18.17
ACO-36	All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Diabetes	46.15	53.2
ACO-37	All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Heart Failure	67.33	75.23
ACO-38	All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions	52.93	59.81
ACO-9	Ambulatory Sensitive Conditions Admissions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Asthma in Older Adults (AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicator (PQI) #5)	5.1	9.27
ACO-10	Ambulatory Sensitive Conditions Admissions: Heart Failure (AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicator (PQI) #8 )	13.12	14.53
ACO-11	Percent of PCPs who Successfully Meet Meaningful Use Requirements	99.26	82.72
ACO-39	Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record	92.05	87.54
ACO-13	Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk	50.87	64.04
ACO-14	Preventive Care and Screening: Influenza Immunization	73.35	68.32
ACO-15	Pneumonia Vaccination Status for Older Adults	83.38	69.21
ACO-16	Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow Up	48.34	74.45
ACO-17	Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	95.06	90.98
ACO-18	Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Clinical Depression and Follow-up Plan	50.16	53.63
ACO-19	Colorectal Cancer Screening	71.3	61.52
ACO-20	Breast Cancer Screening	69.72	67.61
ACO-21	Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for High Blood Pressure and Follow-up Documented	62.55	76.84
ACO-42	Statin Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease	82.04	77.72
ACO-27	Diabetes Mellitus: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control	15.34	18.24
ACO-41	Diabetes: Eye Exam	61.06	44.94
ACO-28	Hypertension (HTN): Controlling High Blood Pressure	70.22	70.52
ACO-30	Ischemic Vascular Disease (IVD): Use of Aspirin or Another Antithrombotic	93.71	85.05
ACO-31	Heart Failure (HF): Beta-Blocker Therapy for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)	97.99	88.67
ACO-33	Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitor or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARB) Therapy – for patients with CAD and Diabetes or Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVEF<40%)	89.38	79.67

Please note, the ACO-40 Depression Remission at 12 months quality measure is not included in public reporting due to low samples.

For 2016 Quality Performance Results please visit:
For 2015 Quality Performance Results please visit:
For 2014 Quality Performance Results please visit:

Note: In the Quality Performance Results file(s) above, search for “Health Connect Partners, LLC” to view the quality performance results. This ACO can also be found by using the ACO ID A17898 in the public use files on data.cms.gov.

Payment Rule Waivers

No, our ACO does not use the SNF 3-Day Rule Waiver.