$29.2 M in federal funds goes to UMass Medical School, UConn Health Center partnership
A partnership between the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Connecticut Health Center has been selected for up to $29.2 million in funding as part of the federal Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative.
Funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will go to 39 health care collaborative networks around the country. The partnership between the UMass and UConn entities – to be called The Southern New England Practice Transformation Network – will receive up to $29.2 million, UMass Medical School said in a statement Wednesday.
The initiative stems from the Affordable Care Act and is designed to support more than 140,000 clinician practices around the country over the next four years in sharing, adapting and further developing their comprehensive quality improvement strategies, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The UMass partnership will provide technical assistance to equip primary and specialty care clinicians in Massachusetts and Connecticut with the tools, information, and network support needed to improve quality of care, increase patients’ access to information, and spend health care dollars more wisely, according to the statement from UMass Medical School.
“The Southern New England Practice Transformation Network is designing and implementing an improvement model that supports clinical practices in the transformation needed for success under alternative payment models,” Dr. David Polakoff, chief medical officer and associate dean of UMass Medical School’s Commonwealth Medicine division, said in the statement.
Initial network partners include Baycare Health Partners, Baystate Health, Berkshire Health Systems, eHealthConnecticut, Qualis Health, Massachusetts eHealth Institute, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, and UMass Memorial Health Care. Other eligible health care systems and clinical practices will be invited to join the network, the medical school said.
“Our network will focus its efforts on small, independent, rural practices, which have been historically underserved by transformation initiatives,” Polakoff said.
WBJ Web Partners
Most Recent
Most Recent
0 Comments