CPSI (NASDAQ: CPSI), a community healthcare solutions company, today announced the first round of charter members for the CPSI Rural Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Program, powered by Caravan Health. CPSI is bringing its leadership and experience to the value-based care arena through a strategic partnership with Caravan Health, the market leader in rural ACOs and value-based payments. More than 50 healthcare facilities have signed letters of intent to be the first members of the CPSI Rural ACO Program, while over 100 other facilities have expressed interest in the program.
“We believe this program will help small, rural communities in their drive to manage the health of their populations through value-based care,” said Boyd Douglas, president and chief executive officer of CPSI. “We are excited about partnering with community healthcare leaders and providers and providing a best-practice, highly engaged process that supports each community. By working together, CPSI and Caravan Health are helping to remove the barriers rural providers face in participating in an ACO. We are minimizing up-front costs while providing the tailored tools and training needed to transform healthcare delivery in their communities.”
“We were interested in the CPSI Rural ACO Program for several reasons,” said Marvin Neth, chief executive officer of Callaway District Hospital and Medical Clinics located in Callaway, Nebraska. “We have explored the transition to delivering value-based care by participating in an ACO before, but the steep financial requirements and risk were barriers. The CPSI Program addresses the financial hurdle, and Caravan Health’s successful track record gives us confidence. No other ACO program we explored offered the level of educational support and proven tools that come with this program.”
“This program is a great opportunity for rural providers to transition to value-based care with minimal risk,” said Lynn Barr, chief executive officer of Caravan Health. “This is an exciting opportunity of which we hope others continue to take advantage.”
Barr added that Caravan Health was able to achieve shared savings that were 257% greater than the national average based on 2015 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data. When this program is combined with the solutions offered by the CPSI family of companies, communities can live healthier, more vibrant lives by leveraging the collective strengths of CPSI and Caravan Health.
About CPSI
CPSI is a leading provider of healthcare
solutions and services for community hospitals plus other healthcare
systems and post-acute care facilities. Founded in 1979, CPSI is the
parent of four companies – Evident, LLC, TruBridge, LLC, Healthland
Inc., and American HealthTech, Inc. Our combined companies are focused
on helping improve the health of the communities we serve, connecting
communities for a better patient care experience, and improving the
financial operations of our customers. Evident provides comprehensive
EHR solutions and services for community hospitals. TruBridge focuses on
providing business, consulting, and managed IT services along with their
RCM product, Rycan, providing revenue cycle management workflow and
automation software to hospitals, other healthcare systems, and skilled
nursing organizations. Healthland provides integrated technology
solutions and services to small rural and critical access hospitals.
American HealthTech is one of the nation’s largest providers of
financial and clinical technology solutions and services for post-acute
care facilities. For more information, visit www.cpsi.com,
www.evident.com,
www.trubridge.com,
www.healthland.com,
www.healthtech.net
or www.rycan.com.
About Caravan Health
Caravan Health supports more than
17,000 independent primary care providers making the transformation to
value-based payments with affordable, simple solutions that achieve
outstanding results through Practice Transformation Networks (PTNs),
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and now Comprehensive Primary Care
Plus (CPC+). For more information, go to www.caravanhealth.com.
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business and economic conditions affecting the healthcare industry,
including the potential effects of the federal healthcare reform
legislation enacted in 2010, and implementing regulations, on the
businesses of our hospital customers; government regulation of our
products and services and the healthcare and health insurance
industries, including changes in healthcare policy affecting Medicareand Medicaid reimbursement rates and qualifying
technological standards; changes in customer purchasing priorities,
capital expenditures and demand for information technology systems;
saturation of our target market and hospital consolidations; general
economic conditions, including changes in the financial and credit
markets that may affect the availability and cost of credit to us or our
customers; our substantial indebtedness, and our ability to incur
additional indebtedness in the future; our inability to generate
sufficient cash in order to meet our debt service obligations;
restrictions on our current and future operations because of the terms
of our senior secured credit facilities; market risks related to
interest rate changes; our ability to successfully integrate the
businesses of Healthland, American HealthTech and Rycan with our
business and the inherent risks associated with any potential future
acquisitions; competition with companies that have greater financial,
technical and marketing resources than we have; failure to develop new
or enhance current technology and products in response to market
demands; failure of our products to function properly resulting in
claims for losses; breaches of security and viruses in our systems
resulting in customer claims against us and harm to our reputation;
failure to maintain customer satisfaction through new product releases
or enhancements free of undetected errors or problems; interruptions in
our power supply and/or telecommunications capabilities, including those
caused by natural disaster; our ability to attract and retain qualified
customer service and support personnel; failure to properly manage
growth in new markets we may enter; misappropriation of our intellectual
property rights and potential intellectual property claims and
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accepted in the United States; fluctuations in quarterly
financial performance due to, among other factors, timing of customer
installations; and other risk factors described from time to time in our
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Tracey Schroeder, 612-787-3125
Chief Marketing Officer
tracey.schroeder@cpsi.com