The National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) has now announced that the first six provider-based accountable care organizations (ACO) to seek accreditation from the ACO program NCQA launched back in 2011.
The six organizations are:
- Billings Clinic, Billings, MT
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Essentia Health, Duluth, MN
- Crystal Run Healthcare, Middletown, NY
- Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, TX
- Health Partners, Minneapolis, MN
NCQA says that these six organizations have committed to undergoing a full NCQA assessment per their recently estrablished guidelines of their ACO capabilities between March and December of this year.
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