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Accountable Care Organizations
- UF Health ACO – Jacksonville

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) deliver care through a model that promotes shared goals among value-based health care collaborators.

What is an ACO?

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) deliver care through a model that promotes shared goals among value-based health care collaborators.

Our ACO

UF Health ACO – Jacksonville is a non for-profit affiliate of UF Health Jacksonville.

What is an ACO?

  • Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) deliver care through a model that promotes shared goals among value-based health care collaborators.
  • Often times, ACOs are physician-led, and participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) offered through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
  • MSSP establishes incentivized, performance-based payment models for qualifying health care organizations serving traditional Medicare beneficiaries that promote collaborative and efficient delivery of care.
  • This care delivery model mitigates fragmented and insufficient access to healthcare while reducing unnecessary cost and improving outcomes for patients.

Our ACO

UF Health ACO – Jacksonville was formed in 2024 to further promote the advancement of medicine and the continuation of the high-quality care that is provided to our patients. The goals of the UF Health physicians pertaining to the ACO are:

  • Improving clinical outcomes for all patients
  • Reduce health care costs for patients, employers and health plans
  • Enhance coordination of care
  • Further the advancement of evidence-based care protocols

Address

UF Health ACO – Jacksonville
655 West 8th Street
Jacksonville, FL 32209

ACO primary contact

Cody Behm
(352) 733-1135
cody.behm@ufhealth.org

Organizational Information

ACO Participants

UF Health Jacksonville ACO, LLC

ACO Participant in Joint Venture

No

Entity Type

Hospital Employing ACO professionals

  • Mark Clarke, MD
    Family Physician
  • Linda R Edwards, MD
    Internal Medicine Physician (Internist)
  • Steven A Godwin, MD, FACEP
    Emergency Medicine Physician
  • Tim Reinschmidt
  • Nipa Shah, MD
    Family Physician
  • Kelly Sharp, MBA, CPA, CMA
  • Skip Wilson, MD

Shared Savings/Losses

  • 2024: $0

Shared Savings Distribution

  • 2024: $0

Quality Performance Results

  • 2024: $0

Our vision

To serve as a national model for collaboration among physicians, health care providers and the communities they serve, to achieve the best possible population health at the best value.

Organizational history

UF Health Jacksonville is a private, not-for-profit hospital affiliated with the University of Florida. lt is part of UF Health, the Southeast’s most comprehensive academic health center, with campuses in Jacksonville and Gainesville. The hospital’s origins date to 1870 as Florida’s first nonmilitary hospital, known then as Duval Hospital and Asylum. UF Health Jacksonville is committed to decreasing disparities in health care delivery across ethnic and economic lines.

For patients and participants

We provide coordinated care for you to get well & stay well

We aim to provide patient-centered care focused on individual patient needs. Health care providers coordinating your care can see the same test results, treatments, and prescriptions—more coordination helps save time, money, and frustration by avoiding repeated tests and appointments.

When you choose a health care provider that participates in an ACO, they’ll help you get the right care at the right time. You can visit Medicare.gov and log into (or create) your secure Medic are account to choose a primary care doctor.

Medicare and patient privacy

Medicare protects the privacy of your health information. If you don’t want Medicare to share information with your health care providers for care coordination, call 1-800-MEDICARE(1-800-633-4227). Medicare may still share general information to measure provider quality. For more information on how Medicare may use and give out your information, visit Medicare.gov and search for “privacy.”

Contact us

Please contact us with any questions you may have about our ACO.

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