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Atrius Health is a Massachusetts based healthcare organization acquired by Optum [1] on May 31, 2022. [2] Atrius Health has a system of connected care for adult and pediatric patients in eastern and central Massachusetts. [3] Atrius Health's medical practices work together with the home health and hospice services of its VNA Care subsidiary and in collaboration with hospital partners, community specialists and skilled nursing facilities. [4]
The Atrius Health groups operate as a model for accountable care organizations (ACOs) [5][ failed verification] with responsibility for the quality and cost of care for many of their patients since before the term was coined by Elliott S. Fisher in 2006. [6] In 2009, Atrius Health became one of the first organizations to sign on to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract (AQC). [7]
Atrius Health is also a participant in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Pioneer ACO program. In 2015, Atrius Health's Pioneer ACO's quality scores were the highest among Pioneer ACO's in Massachusetts and the third-highest among Pioneer ACOs nationally. [8]
Atrius Health has also earned Stage 7 recognition from HIMSS Analytics, the highest level possible nationally for the use of health information technology. [9]
Steven Strongwater became president and CEO of Atrius Health in August 2015. [10] Joe Kimura is chief medical officer and an internist at Atrius Health. In 2012, Kimura was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in the United States. [11] Since 2014, he has served as co-chair of the Office of National Coordinator HIT Policy Federal Workgroup on Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use. [12]
Founding medical groups Dedham Medical Associates and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates formed Atrius Health as a loose affiliation in 2004. They were then joined by Granite Medical Group in 2005. They entered a formal merger in 2015 and took on VNA Care Network & Hospice as a subsidiary providing integrated home health and hospice subsidiary in 2017. [13] [14] PMG Physician Associates followed suit on June 1, 2017. [15] Atrius Health was acquired by Optum on May 31, 2022. [16]
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Atrius Health is a Massachusetts based healthcare organization acquired by Optum [1] on May 31, 2022. [2] Atrius Health has a system of connected care for adult and pediatric patients in eastern and central Massachusetts. [3] Atrius Health's medical practices work together with the home health and hospice services of its VNA Care subsidiary and in collaboration with hospital partners, community specialists and skilled nursing facilities. [4]
The Atrius Health groups operate as a model for accountable care organizations (ACOs) [5][ failed verification] with responsibility for the quality and cost of care for many of their patients since before the term was coined by Elliott S. Fisher in 2006. [6] In 2009, Atrius Health became one of the first organizations to sign on to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract (AQC). [7]
Atrius Health is also a participant in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Pioneer ACO program. In 2015, Atrius Health's Pioneer ACO's quality scores were the highest among Pioneer ACO's in Massachusetts and the third-highest among Pioneer ACOs nationally. [8]
Atrius Health has also earned Stage 7 recognition from HIMSS Analytics, the highest level possible nationally for the use of health information technology. [9]
Steven Strongwater became president and CEO of Atrius Health in August 2015. [10] Joe Kimura is chief medical officer and an internist at Atrius Health. In 2012, Kimura was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in the United States. [11] Since 2014, he has served as co-chair of the Office of National Coordinator HIT Policy Federal Workgroup on Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use. [12]
Founding medical groups Dedham Medical Associates and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates formed Atrius Health as a loose affiliation in 2004. They were then joined by Granite Medical Group in 2005. They entered a formal merger in 2015 and took on VNA Care Network & Hospice as a subsidiary providing integrated home health and hospice subsidiary in 2017. [13] [14] PMG Physician Associates followed suit on June 1, 2017. [15] Atrius Health was acquired by Optum on May 31, 2022. [16]