Fresenius Medical Care Joins Health Care Transformation Task Force
28 May 2015 - 9:30PM
Business Wire
Alliance of Private Sector Leaders Spearheading
Adoption of Value-Based Payment Models
The newly formed Health Care Transformation Task Force, a
partnership of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers
and patient organizations, announced today that Fresenius Medical
Care North America (NYSE:FMS) has joined its membership, and Ron
Kuerbitz, CEO of Fresenius Medical Care North America, has been
named to serve on the group’s board. The company will have
additional representation on the Task Force’s work groups.
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The Task Force is an industry consortium that brings together
patients, payers, providers and purchasers to align private and
public sector efforts to clear the way for a sweeping
transformation of the U.S. health care system. By developing and
disseminating strategy, operational and policy recommendations, it
seeks to spark rapid, measurable change across the health care
landscape. Its members are committed to having 75 percent of their
respective businesses operating under value-based payment
arrangements by 2020.
“We welcome Fresenius Medical Care as an important partner in
the Task Force’s work to accelerate the transformation of the U.S.
health care system,” said Richard J. Gilfillan, MD, CEO and
president of Trinity Health and the Task Force’s chairman. “There
is a vital need for the people who receive, give and pay for care
to work cooperatively to accelerate our efforts to improve the cost
and quality of care. We value the commitment and experience
Fresenius brings to our effort.”
As North America’s largest provider of kidney care, hospitalist
services and renal products, Fresenius Medical Care is positioned
to advance the Task Force’s goals and to bring value-based care to
the chronically ill, who are among the most clinically complex and
expensive patients to treat. Fresenius Medical Care has already
developed value-based measures and risk-based collaborations with
provider groups and payers through population management programs
that specifically target the chronically ill.
“We are very excited to be working with the Task Force,” noted
Kuerbitz. “In particular, its focus on finding new and better ways
to care for the chronically ill is of critical importance. By
sharing our thinking and collective experiences, Task Force members
can make it easier for participants across the health care spectrum
to deliver higher quality and more cost effective care. This kind
of collective effort is needed now more than ever.”
About Health Care Transformation Task Force
Health Care Transformation Task Force is an industry consortium
that brings together patients, payers, providers and purchasers to
align private and public sector efforts to clear the way for a
sweeping transformation of the U.S. health care system. Our members
are committed to rapid, measurable change, both for ourselves and
our country. Our members aspire to having 75 percent of our
respective businesses operating under value-based payment
arrangements by 2020. To learn more, visit www.hcttf.org.
About Fresenius Medical Care North America
Fresenius Medical Care North America is the premier health care
company focused on delivering the highest quality care to people
with renal and other chronic conditions. Through its
industry-leading network of dialysis facilities, outpatient cardiac
and vascular labs and urgent care centers, as well as the country’s
largest practice of hospitalist and post-acute providers, Fresenius
Medical Care provides coordinated health care services at pivotal
care points for hundreds of thousands of chronically ill customers
throughout the continent. As the world’s only vertically integrated
renal company, it offers specialty pharmacy and laboratory
services, and manufactures and distributes the most comprehensive
line of dialysis equipment, disposable products and renal
pharmaceuticals. For more information, visit the FMCNA website at
www.freseniusmedicalcare.us.
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Media Contacts:Health Care Transformation Task ForceRebecca
Porterfield, 202-683-3202(C)
717-940-0428rebecca.porterfield@mslgroup.comorFresenius Medical
CareJon Stone, 781-699-9704(C)
781-392-4680Jonathan.d.stone@fmc-na.com
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