Penn Medicine enters joint venture with Evergreen Nephrology
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The University of Pennsylvania Health System has created and entered a joint venture with Evergreen Nephrology to improve kidney outcomes while containing costs of care, according to a press release.
As part of The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s (UPHS) value-based population health strategies, the partnership contracts with CMS to provide care for Medicare patients with kidney disease. This is intended to shift payment structures away from fee-for-service models and toward a reward system for providers who eliminate unnecessary appointments for patients.
“We need to take a new approach to caring for kidney disease patients – an approach that incentivizes providing what we know to be the best care for patients,” Kevin B. Mahoney, CEO of UPHS, said in the release. “That means a holistic care plan that delays the need for dialysis, helps them get dialysis more conveniently, at home or gets them a kidney transplant early so they never have to sit in that dialysis chair at all. Our new partnership with Evergreen will change patients’ lives and be an important pathway to tremendous health care cost savings.”
The program may make services from dieticians, social workers, pharmacists, home health aides and case managers available to patients. According to the release, 43 Penn Medicine nephrologists intend to join the program and, in the upcoming months, up to 600 patients will be given the opportunity to sign up.
Evergreen Nephrology will provide resources and education to patients to help improve their kidney health.
“It is a tremendous honor for Evergreen Nephrology to partner with Penn Medicine, a world-class academic medical institution. Our partnership is simple and based on one goal: to transform kidney care for people living with kidney disease,” Adam Boehler, executive chairperson and co-founder of Evergreen Nephrology, said in the release. “We founded Evergreen Nephrology because we know the existing models of care didn’t tackle the root of the problems for many patients with kidney disease — the need for full, comprehensive care to help them better manage the disease. Evergreen’s new model of care, combined with the superior medical knowledge of Penn Medicine, will be exciting for all patients fighting kidney disease.”
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