At the recent 2015 ASHP mid-year meeting, presenter Herb Hunter PharmD, BCPS, director of pharmacy services at Margaret Mary Health (MMH), delivered a primary message connecting pharmacy expertise, ACO membership, and made better the facility outcomes. In his talk, Hunter described why he asserted MMH, a critical-access facility situated midway between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, to join the National Rural Health Accountable Care Organization (NRACO) in the year 2013.
“An ACO is comprised of groups of hospitals and healthcare contributors that voluntarily coordinate care to make sure that patients, especially the chronically sick, gain high-quality care. However our membership helps meet the challenges, posed by the Affordable Care Act, of delivering value-based medicine, our primary reason at MMH was to meet the objectives of our hospital mission statement: To make better the health of our community.”
ACOs, he stated, are designed to help facilities transition from a volume-based to a value-based system for management of population health, and 1 way that member facilities can benefit is by enrolling in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The MSSP claimed Hunter, “will reimburse a facility whose practices in delivering high-quality care and wiser spending of healthcare dollars for ACO-member Medicare sufferers are realized.”
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