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About Pearl Primary Care Network

Pearl Primary Care Network (PPCN) is a Medicare REACH ACO — Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health Accountable Care Organization. PPCN is one of a limited number of organizations across the country participating in the model with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS). If your physician is participating with the PPCN ACO, you will receive a letter in the mail welcoming you.

As ACO providers, your primary care physician will develop a treatment plan specific to your health care needs. By working closely together with you to coordinate the care you receive, the physicians that care for you can more effectively keep you well and improve your overall health and quality of life.

Your doctor’s participation in this Model does not change anything about your Medicare benefits and it does not limit the doctors you can choose to see. Every benefit you currently have under Medicare will remain the same.

What is ACO REACH?​

Would you like to learn more about Medicare's Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model?

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Shared Savings & Shared Losses

Performance Year 1 (2023): -$14,298,758.70

Performance Year 2 (2024): Shared Savings or Losses will be reported once available.

Quality Measure Performance​

Quality Measure Performance for all Performance Years will be reported once available.

Performance Year 1 (2023):

  • Risk-Standardized, All-Condition Readmission: 15.87
  • Risk-Standardized, All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: 33.76
  • Timely Follow-Up After Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Conditions: 73.15​
  • Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Research and Quality: 93.44%​

Performance Year 2 (2024): Quality Measure Performance will be reported once available.

How Shared Savings Will Be Distributed​

Unlike most other ACOs, Pearl has taken the provider-centric approach of creating an individualized risk pool for clients of sufficient scale. This is a better model for physician groups, especially performant ones, allowing ACO practices access to their own economics with the benefits of their own ACO — without the overhead of running their own ACO. Individual risk pools ensure potential savings or losses are driven only by a group’s own efforts and no one else's. Because of this, Pearl’s high-performing clients earned more than they would elsewhere.

Performance Year 1 (2023):

  • Proportion to infrastructure and redesigned care processes: 0%​​
  • Proportion to ACO Participants and Preferred Providers: 100%​​

Performance Year 2 (2024):

  • Proportion to infrastructure and redesigned care processes: TBD​​
  • Proportion to ACO Participants and Preferred Providers: TBD

ACO Anonymous Compliance Reporting

PPCN has an Anonymous Compliance Reporting webform that is accessible to all individuals including Medicare Beneficiaries. This form will allow you to report any compliance concerns related to the ACO, and can be accessed by visiting pearlhealth.com/reportaconcern.

You can choose to report anonymously or provide your contact information. The information you provide will be transmitted to the ACO Compliance Officer who will follow-up on the report. The ACO has a non-retaliation policy which means you don’t need to fear making a good faith report. We rely on individuals like you to let us know when something is wrong.Providers may request to review important governing body documents by emailing compliance@pearlhealth.com.

If you ever feel that you are being retaliated against, please call the ACO Compliance Officer: Bailey Acevedo at 518-588-2988.