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KLAS recognized the successful payer, provider, and vendor collaborations that reduce cost and inefficiency and deliver a better patient experience.

Leveraging Arcadia’s population health management platform, Rush Health has united four hospitals, 140 practices and 2,300 providers and implemented a quality improvement program that has enhanced care and financial value through better performance in fee-for-value payment models covering more than 150,000 patients. In 2020, Rush Health’s ACO delivered Medicare cost savings of $19.8 million, earned $9.6 million in shared savings, and achieved a quality score of 97%.

The key finding of the analysis is that COVID patients had a high mortality rate post-discharge compared to the general population — and a mortality rate even higher than discharged patients who had a diagnosis of sepsis.