The Cleveland Clinic has joined forces with three orthopedic practices to create an alliance that contracts directly with employers to provide orthopedic and surgical services to employees for a bundled payment.
Details of the new alliance
The first-of-its-kind alliance—called the National Orthopedic & Spine Alliance (NOSA)—aims to establish industry benchmarks for care quality and value, as well as improve the delivery of orthopedic and spine care nationwide, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. It will offer bundled-payment deals for orthopedic care to large employers.
“This is really a physician-led enterprise to create a national consensus on the best way for orthopedic and spine care to be delivered,” said Daniel Murrey, CEO of OrthoCarolina. Murrey says NOSA will establish quality standards and care pathways, and NOSA’s multiple locations will share clinical data in an effort to standardize and improve care.
NOSA includes:
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The CORE Institute, which operates in Arizona and Michigan;
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OrthoCarolina, which is based in Charlotte, N.C.; and
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Rothman Institute, which operates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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The group also has letters of intent with OrthoIndy and OrthoCalifornia.
However, NOSA does not yet have any bundled-payment contracts with employers, but it plans to enroll patients through employer-based bundled payments next year.
With alliance, Cleveland Clinic moves further into bundled payments
Cleveland Clinic already has struck bundled-payment deals with Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, and Boeing.
Date: September 10, 2013