Delaware Care Collaboration reduces Medicare costs by $2.3 million

DCC continues to earn exceptional quality scores from CMS

Wilmington, Del. – (September 28, 2021) – Delaware Care Collaboration (DCC), a Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and member of Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, is pleased to announce that it saved $2.3 million in healthcare costs for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in performance year 2020.

DCC, whose partners include Saint Francis Hospital and the Medical Society of Delaware, also received excellent quality measure scores according to data released by CMS in its Performance Year and Quality Results report for 2020. The 2020 Measurement years marks the fifth year in a row that DCC has excelled in quality scores with CMS in their MSSP.

“We are incredibly proud to have achieved such high-quality scores in 2020, despite the very challenging healthcare landscape that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Dr. Robert Monteleone, medical director for DCC. “Many patients were not able or, in some cases, chose not to seek preventive or needed care during the first year of the pandemic. It was the hard work and strong collaboration between DCC’s care coordination team and participating physician practices that made this success possible.”

DCC’s parent organization, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, had its best year on record with the health system’s Medicare Shared Savings ACO, Trinity Health Integrated Care (THIC). THIC saved CMS $68 million dollars in the 2020 measurement year—a $27 million dollar increase in THIC’s savings for CMS from 2019.

Because of the continued success of the THIC ACO, DCC will join the THIC MSSP ACO beginning in the 2022 performance year.

“The Delaware Care Collaboration is very excited to embark on this new journey with the THIC,” says Daniel Bair, FACHE, regional executive director for Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Clinically Integrated Network. “We look forward to participating in an MSSP model that offers more opportunity to support our communities’ Medicare beneficiaries and generate more savings for CMS and our ACO participating physicians.”

DCC continues to emphasize the importance of preventative screening, active chronic disease management and the delivery of the highest quality of care to slow or prevent disease progression and the need for expensive hospital-based services. A multidisciplinary team of nurse care managers, social workers, behavioral health specialists, community health workers and provider relations professionals work together to support DCC’s integrated care coordination model.