Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center (Addabbo), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), aims to be the leading preventative and comprehensive primary healthcare provider in New York. Here's why they partnered with Yuvo to grow access to their quality care.
For more than 35 years, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center (Addabbo), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), has been providing high-quality, accessible, and cost-effective healthcare to residents of New York. Here is their story.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made some significant changes in the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule that directly benefit FQHCs – and give these community health centers even more of an incentive to embrace value-based care (VBC) for all their patients.
Dedicated to improving access to quality and comprehensive healthcare, respecting the unique abilities and needs of patients throughout their lifespan, LISH knows that health is impacted by more than healthcare.
“If we could move the quality metric needle of our patients, that would be phenomenal, and if there’s an opportunity to obtain profit that could then be applied to staff who are doing the work, then that would be even better. You have to find the balance in purpose and profit in an organization like ours,” says Dr. Powell of Long Island Select Healthcare
“If we’re doing our job right, patients won’t need us,” says Rita Bilello, DDS, Chief Executive Officer at Metro Community Health Centers (MCHC), who established a partnership with Yuvo Health in 2022. Her goal, she says, is to introduce patients to care and build an environment where people feel safe and secure, so they feel comfortable reaching out when they have an issue.
The FQHC world has traditionally fought battles by themselves, Dr. Bilello explains. “We’re the black sheep of the payer community. We have patients who actually utilize services.” Rarely, if ever, does a company offer to help FQHCs and with such sincerity. “Yuvo Health is willing to work with us around the challenges that FQHCs have in the value-based conversation,” says Dr. Bilello. Payers have created hoops that FQHCs can’t jump in, so they don’t have to engage FQHCs in healthcare conversations, Dr. Bilello explains. “With Yuvo taking this challenge on and eliminating the barriers, it gives FQHCs a voice in the conversation but also allows us, to some degree, to prove what we’re capable of doing.”
Creative collaboration with payers and strong relationships across the community are crucial for FQHCs to see success with value-based care.
Value-based care is all about teamwork. FQHCs that establish the right partnerships early in the process are more likely to see success with their clinical and financial goals.
Just as FQHCs partner with their patients, Yuvo and PCDC are here to offer support and relief to the staff and clinicians on the front lines.
