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FEATURE:

Two State Medical Societies to
Collaborate on Value-Based
Care Contracting

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ewark, DE and Harrisburg, PA - April 15, 2019 - Through
their subsidiary organizations, the Medical Society of
Delaware (MSD) and the Pennsylvania Medical Society
(PAMED) have agreed to join forces to explore development of
a joint approach to pursue value-based care arrangements for
physicians in their respective states.
MSD's subsidiary, the Medical Network Management Services
of Delaware, LLC (MedNet), and PAMED's subsidiary, The
Care Centered Collaborative, will collectively identify a pathway
for the development of a unique regional enterprise dedicated to
improving access to quality care, reducing costs, and improving
both patient satisfaction and physician satisfaction in both states.
A mutual goal of this initiative will be to provide improved data
and analytics resources, enhanced population health management
capabilities, and augmented care coordination functions through
their technology partner, HealthEC, LLC.
The agreement will foster improvements to address the current
inefficient and segmented care delivery for patients in primary care
as well as specialty settings. "We believe we can bring the best of
what high-performing, physician-led practices have to offer through
a collaboration like this," said Jaan Sidorov, MD, MHA, who is also
the CEO of the Care Centered Collaborative (The Collaborative)

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at The Pennsylvania Medical Society. The Collaborative's Clinically
Integrated Network is the PA Clinical Network. "We can bring the
power of our combined practices and our significant expertise to
bear for the benefit of the patients we have the privilege to serve.
Like our colleagues in Delaware, we have invested in sophisticated
population health analytics as well as state-of-the-art case
management programs that will help Pennsylvania's and Delaware's
doctors stay independent."
"As health care continues to change, and as we move further
away from sole reliance on the old, volume-based models of
payment to increasingly greater number of value-based payment
programs, we will draw on experiences from our partnerships with
the PAMED and HealthEC," said MedNet President, Michael J.
Bradley, D.O. MedNet is a subsidiary of the Medical Society of
Delaware. "Our primary care physicians and specialists will be
rewarded for providing high-quality, cost-effective care, and will
be supported as they remain financially and clinically independent.
Most importantly, this collaboration will improve outcomes and
the overall patient experience, drawing on the important doctorpatient relationships and new, sophisticated population health
technologies."
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