Care Delivery Systems

Accountable Care Organizations

Reduce Total Cost of Care by Introducing Value-Added Mental Condition Services in Accountable Care Organizations

Staff model health maintenance organizations and care delivery systems that are developing accountable care organizations (ACOs) have an opportunity to capture savings while improving the quality of care by integrating general medical and mental condition service delivery. While ACOs are still defining themselves, they offer the capability of incorporating clinician-designed programs that can be financially supported using payment approaches that create the greatest value to patients. Since cost savings come back to the ACO and its provider membership (practitioners and facilities), introduction of integrated care practices can be a “win” for patients, clinicians, hospitals and clinics, health plans, and purchasers of care.

If you represent a staff model health plan or care delivery system that is developing an ACO and...

• Wish to lower the total cost of care by improving coordination of general medical and mental condition evaluation and treatment
• Wish to improve health outcomes and reduce service use costs in patients with chronic illnesses or health complexity

...Ways that Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™ can help

• By assisting ACO design leadership as they develop programs and internal payment approaches that will facilitate the coordination of physical and mental condition services based on models that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes and lower total health costs
• By introducing integrated care management practices as a means of improving outcomes and lowering health care costs for patients with unstable chronic multimorbid illnesses and health complexity

For more information or to set up an appointment contact: Mary Kathol, Director of Project Implementation.

Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™
3004 Foxpoint Rd. - Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone: 952-426-1626 - Fax: 952-426-1200
E-mail: integration@cartesiansolutions.com