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.