The partnership brings together two highly respected, experienced organizations committed to the Triple Aim of providing better care, better health and lower costs while adding a fourth element of improved care giver engagement.
This will be achieved by combining Heritage's long standing track record of physician led managed care and Signature's quality and reputation in Missouri and beyond.
For too many doctors, patients, and families, improving the quality, cost and service in healthcare all at the same time is frustratingly difficult. The new Missouri Collaborative Healthcare will change that dynamic by providing higher quality, more affordable coverage with an improved user friendly system.
The key is enabling physicians and their collaborating healthcare partners to have a current and more complete informational view of all their patients, all the time.
Combining this information with accelerated payments from insurers and government that reward quality and effectiveness empowers Missouri Collaborative Healthcare to accelerate these changes. Physicians can then coordinate needs and care across the entire system and tailor needed healthcare services proactively.
In addition, it will enable physicians to help patients and families understand the stronger role they can play in improving their own health and care.
For the first time, the joint venture will support physicians in the Midwest to expand the latest Heritage successful, proven clinical model and tailor it to each patient proactively. This venture will leverage Signature's primary and specialist physician network as well as recruit many more Missouri physicians to create a robust care network.
"We are proud to be broadening the population served by Heritage, supporting physicians in yet another local market, along with Signature Medical Group, as Heritage delivers better healthcare and wellness to more people across the country," said Dr. Richard Merkin, CEO of Heritage Medical Systems.
"Our proprietary technology, and a body of knowledge developed over 37-years allows physicians to take full complete clinical responsibility in the changing healthcare environment, enabling us to improve outcomes and provide the best care to families and communities in Missouri," he continued.
