Palo Alto Medical Foundation Teams Up With United Healthcare To Create ACO for Bay Area Patients
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation and United Healthcare have announced plans to form an accountable care organization to serve 63,000 patients in the Bay Area who are enrolled in the insurer's employer-sponsored health plans. The move is part of plans to shift the medical foundation to a value-based payment model.
- "Largest U.S. Health Insurer Inks Deal With Bay Area Group To Serve 63,000 Patients" (Rauber, "Bay Area BizTalk," San Francisco Business Times, 4/30).