Overview
What are Accountable Care Organizations?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) are groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who voluntarily come together with the goal of delivering:
Better care for patients
Better health for communities
Smarter spending through
improvement
As one of Wisconsin's first ACOs, UW Health ACO is a partnership between UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter physicians, clinics, and hospitals and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Together, UW Health ACO participants work to better coordinate your care whether you are in the primary care office, seeing a specialist, admitted to the hospital or at home.
Here are some of the ways that UW Health ACO works to improve your care and overall health:
You are the center of care, and your providers are better able to keep you informed and honor your choices.
Care providers communicate with each
other to provide better-coordinated care.Care providers have more information
about your medical conditions, prescriptions and visits enabling them to
provide the right care at the right time in the right setting.Care providers will be accountable to
you and to payers for providing better care and better care coordination.
UW Health ACO participates in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services'
(CMS) Next Generation ACO Model. More information on the Next Generation ACO
Model can be found here.
Resources
More information to assist you
Your privacy is important:
Next generation ACO providers:
Contact Us
If you have questions about UW Health ACO please contact:
For UW Health Patients:
(800) 552-4255
For UPH-Meriter Patients:
(608) 417-6027
Next Generation ACO Public Reporting
ACO Name and Location
UW Health ACO, Inc.
749 University Row
Madison, Wisconsin 53705
ACO Primary Contact
Jonathan Jaffery, President and CEO
UW Health ACO, Inc.
uwhealthaco@uwhealth.org
608-821-4998
ACO Joint Ventures
We are required by CMS to identify all joint ventures between or among UW Health ACO, Inc. and any of its Next Generation Participants or Preferred Providers. UW Health ACO, Inc. does not have any joint ventures at this time.
Accountable Care Organization Clinical and Administrative Leadership
UW Health
Jonathan Jaffery, MD
President and CEO, UW Health ACO, Inc.
UnityPoint - Meriter
Sarah Valencia
Vice President, UW Health ACO, Inc.
UW Health
Sarah Valencia
Vice President, UW Health ACO, Inc.
UW Health
Jeff Huebner, MD
Medical Director, UW Health ACO, Inc.
ACO Governing Body
UW Health
Matthew Anderson, MD
Chair Voting Power: 11.1%
South Madison Coalition of the Elderly
Katie Brietzman
__Consumer Advocate__ Voting Power:11.1%
UnityPoint Health - Meriter
Thomas Bugliosi, MD
__Member__ Voting Power: 11.1%
Center for Patient Partnerships
Sarah Davis, JD
__Member__ Voting Power:11.1%
UW Health
Kiah R. Calmese Walker
__Member__ Voting Power: 11.1%
UW Health
R. Allan Jhagroo, MD
Member Voting Power: 11.1%
UnityPoint Health - Meriter
Farah Khan, MD
__Member__ Voting Power: 11.1%
Julieanne Pofahl
__Medicare Beneficiary__ Voting Power: 11.1%
UW Health
Michael Sloan, MD
__Member__ Voting Power: 11.1%
Performance Year 3 (2018): $4,587,813
Performance Year 4 (2019): Pending, will be reported in Fall 2020
The proportion of Shared Savings invested in infrastructure, redesigned care processes and other resources necessary to improve outcomes and reduce Medicare costs for
beneficiaries:
Performance Year 3: $2,587,813
Performance Year 4: Pending,
will be reported in Fall 2020.
The proportion of Shared Savings
distributed as to Next Generation Participants and Preferred Providers:
Performance Year 3: $2,000,000
Performance Year 4: Pending,
will be reported in Fall 2020.
Quality Performance
Performance Year 3 2018: Quality Results (pdf)