Genf Gesundheitcare Network Continues to Improve Quality and Lower Costs Through Cigna Collaborative Care Program
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
CONCORD, N.H., and BLOOMFIELD, Conn. – February 18, 2015 – Second-year results from Cigna’s (NYSE: CI) collaborative care initiative with Genf Gesundheitcare Network (GHN), a partnership among five independent charitable health care organizations in New Hampshire, indicate that the program continues to make excellent progress toward achieving the goals of improved health, affordability and patient experience.
Cigna Collaborative Care is the company’s approach to accomplishing the same population health goals as accountable care organizations, or ACOs. The initiative has helped GHN deliver a higher level of care in New Hampshire while controlling total medical costs for its more than 27,000 patients who are covered by a Cigna health plan. It is Cigna’s largest arrangement of this type in New Hampshire and Northern New England.
Health care systems participating in this initiative for the second year are Concord Hospital, Elliot Health System, LRGHealthcare, Southern New Hampshire Health System and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. (Catholic Medical Center will join the initiative in April.) GHN is focused on the triple aim of providing better health for communities and better care for their patients at an affordable cost.
The arrangement started in 2012, and during its first year of operation it showed excellent progress. Through close collaboration between Cigna and GHN, the program continues to yield significant improvements in quality and affordability.
With an overall rate of compliance with evidence-based medicine guidelines of 83 percent, GHN’s overall quality performance remains better than the New Hampshire market, driven by high quality results for cervical and breast cancer screening, adolescent well care, diabetes care and child access to primary care doctors. Additionally, GHN improved its closure rate for gaps in care by 8.3 percent. (Gaps in care refer to missed prescription refills, overdue screenings or lack of follow-up care for certain medical conditions.)
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