WASHINGTON, May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolent Health
(NYSE: EVH), a company providing an integrated value-based care platform to the nation's leading health systems and physician
organizations, today announced its partnership with Community Care Cooperative (C3). C3 is currently serving as a pilot
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) comprised of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and serving communities across
Massachusetts. The partnership will bring together the best practices from both organizations to
promote high-quality, cost-effective care for adults and children enrolled in the state's MassHealth Medicaid program and
assigned to the C3 ACO.
Evolent will bring to the partnership its proven predictive analytics, technology infrastructure and clinical models
implemented across the country, while C3 will bring years of market-leading experience delivering integrated physical and
behavioral health in diverse local communities. Together, the organizations aim to successfully build a value-based care delivery
system that could serve a significant number of MassHealth beneficiaries.
"We are thrilled to partner with C3 in this innovative partnership that is closely connected to our mission as it will change
the way care is delivered in Massachusetts," said Evolent Chief Executive Officer Frank Williams. "By leveraging the best practices, knowledge and expertise of both sides, we believe we can
impact the health and well-being of underserved populations by applying data-driven, population health approaches in the trusted,
high-value settings of C3's FQHCs. We are excited to be working with C3 as our first FQHC-centric partner."
The Evolent-C3 partnership will initially focus on building a model of care and associated systems and processes that
integrate social determinants of health and behavioral health services with primary care to optimize health outcomes. The
companies will also deploy a common technology platform across C3 health centers with a goal of unifying data aggregation,
clinical stratification, and coding and documentation workflows across C3's FQHCs, which leverage a variety of electronic medical
record platforms and instances.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has long been a leader in health care, passing universal
coverage in 2006. It is once again a model for innovative care by enabling organizations like C3 to serve beneficiaries in a
Medicaid ACO. In November 2016, CMS and the Commonwealth announced the renewal of the
Commonwealth's 1115 waiver, paving the way for work to restructure Medicaid delivery to support the move to ACOs and allow for
innovative ways of addressing the social determinants of health. Massachusetts is the first and
only state embedding social determinants of health into risk scores, ensuring that health-related social needs are recognized for
the true impact that they have on an individual's cost of care.
"This is the first model of its kind in our state, and we couldn't be more thrilled to be collaborating with Evolent," said
Community Care Cooperative Chief Executive Officer Christina Severin. "By collaborating with a
flexible and responsive company like Evolent, we are able to bring the best of what Evolent does to foster the incredible work at
the FQHCs to create a high-value, high-discipline and data-driven model and embed that within the FQHCs to be as close to the
patient experience as possible."
According to a November 2016 study in the American Journal of Public Health, FQHCs provided a
more cost-efficient setting for primary care for Medicaid patients. Those who received the majority of their primary care from
FQHCs had lower use and spending than non-health center patients across all services, including 22 percent fewer visits and 24
percent lower total spending.
"Federally Qualified Health Centers don't always get recognition for the work they do in providing high quality, lower-cost
care to individuals and supporting the health of communities," said East Boston Neighborhood
Health Center Chief Executive Officer and C3 Chair of the Board Manny Lopes. "They are high-performing organizations and provide
high quality care at 20 to 25 percent lower cost on the same set of services nationally. The C3-Evolent partnership is exciting
because the quality of care and value can exceed that of other national models."
About Evolent Health
Evolent Health partners with leading provider organizations to achieve superior clinical and financial results in
value-based care. With a provider heritage and over 20 years of health plan administration experience, Evolent operates in more
than 30 U.S. health care markets, actively managing care across Medicare, Medicaid, commercial and self-funded adult and
pediatric populations. With the experience to drive change, Evolent confidently stands by a commitment to achieve results. For
more information, visit evolenthealth.com.
About Community Care Cooperative
Community Care Cooperative (C3) is a newly formed, not-for-profit health care corporation organized to take
responsibility for managing the cost and quality of health care for its members. Unlike other large-scale Accountable Care
Organizations (ACOs) in Massachusetts, CCC is built entirely on a foundation of community-based
primary care providers. As such, the organization is uniquely positioned to be a true innovator in successfully achieving cost
and quality goals. For more information visit communitycarecooperative.org.
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