NewHealth Collaborative is Summa Health System's Accountable Care Organization. It is made up of over 650 providers and 5 hospitals collaborating voluntarily to provide high-quality, coordinated care to populations served.
An ACO is a group of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated, high-quality care to their patients. An ACO shifts the focus of medicine away from treating the sick to keeping patients healthy. It reduces cost by improving health outcomes (not by denying services) and preventing unnecessary utilization. An ACO is not an insurance company and does not pay claims or administer health benefits.
It is a clinician-led collaborative that partners with communities to compassionately care for and serve our populations in an accountable, value and evidence-based manner.
It is the addition of an RN or LSW care coordinator to your primary care team, as a resource for the assessment of patient goals and needs, and development of an integrated care plan for complex and/or fragile patients.
Patients within NHC populations who are unstable or fragile due to multiple chronic conditions, moving between levels of care, and/or high levels of preventable ED utilization.
Total number of lives: Approximately 113,000, with over $700 million total medical spend
NHC operations are funded through provider (both physician and hospital) assessments as well as infrastructure support from payer partners.
Shared savings are distributed between primary care physicians, specialists and hospitals based on metrics in the following areas:
NewHealth Collaborative maintains a compliance hotline available to any NHC provider or office staff to report suspected non-compliance, fraud, waste, or abuse.
Compliance Hotline: 1-855-280-8475
This number is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is manned by an outside vendor. Callers do not speak with a Summa Employee and have the option to remain anonymous. All calls are treated confidentially and are taken seriously and investigated.
For any additional questions regarding compliance or the hotline, please contact the NHC Compliance Officer, Beverly Brouse @ 1-855-280-8475
Kathy Blake
President,
NewHealth Collaborative (ACO)
RN, MSN, NE-BC