Wakemed Key Community Care (WKCC), a division of WakeMed Health & Hospitals, along with WakeMed Physician Practices and Key Physicians, have join hands with UnitedHealthcare (NYSE:UNH) to improve care coordination while enhancing health services for residents of the Triangle area in North Carolina, for those who are enrolled in the UnitedHealthcare’s employer sponsored health plans. These enrollments will be eligible to be provided with healthcare from a WKCC primary physician.
The new accountable care relationship service is expected to take effect in the next few days, i.e. June 1st 2015.Through this partnership, it will help to integrate valuable health care resources to better support the residents across the Triangle area. WKCC has been part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which was launched earlier this year. The program provides access of health services to approximately 400 patients.
The benefits that patients will receive range from routine check up to disease management or to an unexpected trip to the emergency department from accident victims. This program will also help to expand on the range of opportunities for care providers, including proactive services, i.e. providing patients with preventive methods of health care, such as the use of immunizations, tools, and materials to inform patients on methods to manage their health, and most importantly to help patients to be treated at the optimum place and time.
According to John Rubino, M.D., WKCC chairman, the WakeMed Key Community Care’s new dimension of its working relationship with United Healthcare will help to bring about a shift in health care system of North Carolina in which rewards are directed to those who maintain and provide quality and value, despite of the number of procedures that have been performed.
United Healthcare has committed to take the relationship much deeper and more collaborative with physicians and patients in not only in North Carolina, but also the whole of the US, since it also conducts around 520 more accountable care programs in other states and districts too.
In a separate news, UnitedHealth Group subsidiary has offered to provide free emotional and counseling support for the victims of the recent storms that had covered Texas and Oklahoma. United Healthcare’s partners with behavioral health company, Optum is also opening up emotional support line to provide ‘help services’ for those who are having difficulty in coping with the aftermath of the recent storms.
United Healthcare stock price ended the day at $119.45, a gain of more than 1%.
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