BANGOR, MAINE — Community Care Partnership of Maine improved care for more than 18,000 Medicare beneficiaries across the state and saved Medicare $5,761,929 by meeting quality and cost goals in 2019, according to recently released performance data from the federal agency that administers Medicare. 

Community Care Partnership of Maine earned a quality score of 92.17% on performance measures ranging from preventive health checks to use of computerized health records to preventing avoidable hospitalizations, Medicare data show. The $5,761,929 of gross savings to Medicare resulted in a shared savings payment of $2,655,332 to CCPM. CCPM and its member organizations, all of which are federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) or community hospitals, will use the performance payment to invest in infrastructure aimed to achieve continued improvements in the delivery of high-quality patient care. Performance year 2019 marks CCPM’s fourth consecutive year of success in generating savings under the program. The graph below outlines CCPM’s cumulative savings generated (in blue) and net savings (in green) in MSSP 2016-2019.

“I am so proud of our tremendous success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program over the last four years. It is truly a testament to our member organizations’ dedication to CCPM’s mission to deliver high-quality, patient-centered and cost-effective care to the people of Maine,” said Mary Prybylo, CEO of Community Care Partnership of Maine and President of St. Joseph Healthcare in Bangor. 

CCPM is comprised of 18 organizations – 15 FQHCs and 3 community hospitals. Member organizations share best practices aimed at improving patient health outcomes and ensuring continuity in care delivery across the care delivery system. CCPM’s MSSP participants in 2019 included:

• Cary Medical Center – Caribou
• D.F.D. Russell Medical Center – Turner, Leeds and Monmouth
• Fish River Rural Health – Eagle Lake, Fort Kent and Madawaska
• Greater Portland Health – Portland and South Portland
• Hometown Health Center – Newport and Dexter
• Katahdin Valley Health Center – Millinocket, Ashland, Houlton, Patten and Brownville
• Millinocket Regional Hospital – Millinocket
• Nasson Health Care – Springvale and North Berwick
• Penobscot Community Health Care – Bangor, Brewer, Old Town, Winterport, Jackman and Belfast
• Pines Health Services – Caribou, Presque Isle and Van Buren
• Sacopee Valley Health Center – Porter
• St. Joseph Healthcare – Bangor, Brewer and Hampden

In 2019 nationally, 541 ACOs caring for 11.2 million beneficiaries participated in the MSSP, generating gross savings of $1.19 billion based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services methodology for setting financial benchmarks. A fact sheet with more information about MSSP ACOs is available online, along with other resources — What is an ACO? — and the ABCs of ACOs. 

For more information about Community Care Partnership of Maine, please visit: www.ccpmaine.org.