Agilon health Partners with Independent Physician Groups in Austin, TX and Akron, OH
October 29, 2018 at 08:00 am EDT
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agilon health announced that it has entered into a joint venture with leading independent physician practices Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) and Premier Family Physicians in Austin, Texas, and with Pioneer Physicians Network in Akron, Ohio. These recent partnerships expand upon agilon health's efforts to both improve and accelerate the growth of risk-based models of care in key geographies across the country through the introduction of a complete operating platform for integrated payment and delivery. With Oct. 29, 2018 announcement, agilon health has successfully entered into seven partnerships with leading physician groups and networks, empowering primary care providers in six markets to influence the continued transformation of their local care delivery systems around the principles of cost and quality. Across these six markets, agilon health has signed 17 global risk contracts with multiple payors, including Humana and WellCare, that will serve the Medicare Advantage population in 2019.
agilon health, inc. is a healthcare company. It enables primary care physicians (PCP) to be the agents for change in the communities they serve. Through its combination of the agilon platform, a long-term partnership model with existing physician groups and a growing network of like-minded physicians, it offers healthcare for seniors across communities throughout the United States. Its model operates by primarily forming risk-bearing entities (RBEs) within local geographies, that enter into arrangements with payors providing for monthly payments to manage the total healthcare needs of its physician partnersâ attributed patients (or global capitation arrangements). It focuses on community-based physician groups and is built around three key elements: agilonâs platform, agilonâs long-term physician partnership approach, and agilonâs network. The agilon platform is holistic in supporting the rapid transition to a Total Care Model with technology, people, process and capital.