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Baystate Health: A Model Health System in a Model Environment

Baystate Health is a $2B+ model health system offering all the advantages of a top-tier integrated delivery health network, in an environment that closely mirrors the vast majority of US healthcare systems, including patient population profile and cost structures. The network includes the region’s largest health insurance company and a flagship academic medical center. It is an ideal system for proving your product or learning what it takes to bring it to scale.

  • $2B+ operating revenue
  • 12,000+ employees with 1,700+ doctors, serving a population of 1 million
  • 5 hospitals, including flagship academic hospital, Tufts University Medical School
  • 90 medical groups, VNA, and hospice
  • Largest reference lab in the region
  • Owner of Health New England, the largest health insurance plan in the region, 250,000 insured lives
  • Extensive, high-quality, integrated delivery network
  • Accountable Care structure; 200,000+ patients at-risk
  • Medical homes: integration of specialists into standard primary care
  • Nationally leading EHR adoption
  • HIMSS Stage 6, 100% adoption in primary care practices
  • Proprietor of the regional HIE (PVIX)
  • Strong existing research activity in critical area of healthcare quality and outcomes
  • Patient population mirrors broader US
    • E.g. 48% rural lower income patients; national average is 52%
    • Aging population, high incidence of chronic disease
  • Stable population
    • Valuable longitudinal and multi-generational data
  • 2+ year head-start on Affordable Care Act as modeled after MA healthcare law