Industry Bulletins | February 23, 2018
Allegheny Health Network’s Clinically Integrated Network Joins Medicare Shared Savings Program
Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) clinically integrated network (CIN), Physician Partners of Western PA, LLC, is joining in the Medicare Shared savings Program (MSSP) as an accountable care organization (ACO). The CIN is one of 124 new MSSPs across the country participating.
The integrated network seeks to bring together provider organizations in order to coordinate care across various medical specialties and allow greater collaboration. The MSSP, which launched in 2012, currently contains 561 ACOs and about 10.5 million consumers. Leadership of AHN’s CIN have remarked that joining the MSSP will allow the CIN to expand its market into . . .