![]() In order to share the savings it achieves for the Medicare initiative, Trinity Health ACO is required to succeed in both delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars wisely. Patients experience no change in their original Medicare benefits and retain their freedom to see any Medicare provider. Trinity Health ACO coordinates care to patients in Illinois (Loyola Physician Partners, part of Loyola Medicine), Michigan (Affinia Health Network, part of Mercy Health – Michigan), New Jersey (Summit Medical Group) and Ohio (Mount Carmel Health Partners, part of Mount Carmel Health System). Trinity Health’s participation in Medicare ACOs is through more than 15,000 physicians and advanced practice professionals committed to 16 Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) that are accountable for approximately 1.5 million lives across the country through alternative payment models (APMs) across all populations and product lines: Medicaid, Commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicare ACOs. Participation in Next Generation ACOs is voluntary for providers who - when part of the Model - are paid based on the quality of care they provide to patients. This waiver allows eligible patients, whose doctors participate in the Next Generation ACO Model, to be admitted to a SNF directly from their home or a doctor’s office, or from a hospital even with an inpatient hospital stay of fewer than three days. ACOs often also offer expanded benefits, which may include the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Three-Day Rule Waiver. Next Generation ACOs, like Trinity Health ACO, are patient-centered organizations that give providers access to better information about their patients' medical histories and encourage better relationships with other providers. In these ways, it strives to attain the highest quality standards of care for Medicare recipients. It sets predictable financial targets, gives beneficiaries more opportunities to manage their own health, and enables providers to better coordinate care across health systems. The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model was created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and is in its sixth year. ![]() This savings, in addition to our high-quality score of 97.25%, showcases the value the model provides to more than 77,000 Medicare beneficiaries and communities across the country.” “Our focus on being good stewards of quality and the Medicare dollar, in addition to the dedication of our providers in service to their patients, has allowed us to save Medicare more than $85.6 million since the start of the model five years ago. “Trinity Health ACO is proud of our cost savings over the past three years,” said Emily Brower, senior vice president of clinical integration and physician services for Trinity Health. Trinity Health ACO, a Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO), achieved $23.1 million in shared savings in performance year 2020 – saving Medicare more than $20 million for the third year in a row. ![]() ![]() The new strategy for building an outstanding trinity coating via competitive reactions can pave a realistic way for fabricating unparalleled next-generation separation membranes.Trinity Health ACO Achieves $23.1 Million in Shared Savings for 2020, Saving Medicare More Than $20 Million for the Third Year in a Row Meanwhile, the novel membrane with the perfectly tuned architecture by CB/COB competitive reactions possesses extraordinary dye/salt selectivity, tremendous acid/alkali–base stability and excellent anti-pollution capacity simultaneously. The CB/COB competitive reactions drastically enhanced the permeance of the trinity coated membrane by 533%, 238%, and 93% compared to that of the unary (pDA) and binary (pDA/PEI or pDA/Co 2+) coated membranes. Our molecular separation nanoporous membrane demonstrates ultra-high permeance (114 L m −2 h −1 bar −1 for Bromothymol Blue (BTB) and 104 L m −2 h −1 bar −1 for Congo Red (CR)) with complete rejection, which is much superior to that of state-of-the-art membranes and can realize the lower energy consumption of the membrane separation process. The COBs generated among various polyphenols (PPhs), amino substances (ASs) and transition metal ions (TMIs) can limit Michael addition or Schiff base reactions for CB formation between PPhs and ASs during the mussel-inspired ternary coating process so as to elegantly engineer the trinity coating architecture on the porous substrate with ultra-thin thickness, excellent structural integration, high hydrophilicity and outstanding smoothness. Herein, an ultra-thin trinity coating (∼33 nm) for unparalleled molecular separation is first built via covalent bond (CB)/coordination bond (COB) competitive reactions. Advanced nanoporous membranes with outstanding permeance and exceptional molecular-separation efficiency are highly desirable for key industrial applications for alleviating the worldwide environmental/energy crisis. ![]()
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