agilon health announced it has entered into a joint venture with four more leading independent physician practices. They are Buffalo Medical Group (BMG) in Buffalo, NY; Wilmington Health in Wilmington, NC; Starling Physicians in Hartford, CT and The Toledo Clinic, in Toledo, Ohio. These new partnerships expand upon agilon health's efforts to improve and accelerate the growth of risk-based models of care in key geographies across the country by introducing a complete operating platform for integrated payment and delivery. With today's announcement, agilon health has successfully entered into thirteen partnerships with leading physician groups and networks, including Central Ohio Primary Care in Columbus, Ohio, and Austin Regional Clinic in Austin, Texas – in total empowering primary care providers in eleven geographies to influence the continued transformation of their local care delivery systems around the principles of cost and quality. Across these geographies, agilon health has signed more than 40 global risk contracts with multiple payors, including leading national and regional plans that will serve the Medicare Advantage population in 2021. Their multi-payor approach ensures patient choice of the health plan benefits that serve them best. In addition, seven of market-leading primary care practice partners have expanded the scope of collaboration to include traditional Medicare patients through the CMS Direct Contracting program. This expansion affirms their commitment to the partnership with agilon health and enables a consistent provider experience and patient-centered approach to quality, efficiency and care for all of their Medicare beneficiaries. According to the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network, approximately 46% of all seniors nationally are in advanced payment models. In, contrast, agilon health's partnership model platform represents hundreds of independent primary care physicians with 100% of their collectively attributed Medicare Beneficiaries in advanced payment models tied to quality and efficiency. Throughout the pandemic, the practices who are in risk arrangements through agilon's platform as of 2020 performed more than 115,000 virtual visits on their Medicare Advantage patients, a rate that is 15% per thousand beneficiaries higher than national benchmarks. Furthermore, during these unprecedented times, where care for many with chronic conditions has been disrupted, 15% of the virtual visits performed have been for patients with more than four chronic conditions.