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Carolina Kidney Partners and Conduce Health partner in Innovative Value-Based Approach to Improve Outcomes for Medicare patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
November 13, 2023 – Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP), a multi-state, physician-owned, physician led organization and Conduce Health, a value based multispecialty care management company announce an innovative partnership. Chronic kidney disease impacts 23% of Medicare patients. Many of whom start unplanned dialysis, which results in a drastic impact to quality of life and 25% increased mortality. All eight physician groups with more than 140 providers united under CKP are fully committed to provide an enhanced level of care through a value-based approach that rewards preventative, evidence-based care. The goal of this new initiative is to improve the outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease.Description goes here
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Carolina Kidney Partners and Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates Join in Innovative Value-Based Approach to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Oct. 22, 2021– Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP), a multi-practice, physician-owned organization is proud to announce the addition of Nephrology &Hypertension Medical Associates to CKP. The partnership with Nephrology &Hypertension Medical Associates expands the footprint of Carolina Kidney Partners in both the commercial insurance market and Medicare. Through value-based agreements, an approach that rewards agreed upon quality metrics rather than fee for service, CKP’s fully committed physician groups anticipate being able to provide an enhanced level of care leading to improved outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease.
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Carolina Kidney Partners & BlueCross Join in Innovative Value-Based Approach To Improve Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Feb. 22, 2021 - Hoping to achieve higher quality care at a lower cost by prevention rather than treatment, Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP), a five practice, physician-owned organization in South Carolina and BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina announce an innovative partnership. Through a value-based arrangement, which is an approach that rewards agreed upon quality metrics rather than payment for individual tests and treatments, CKP’s fully committed physicians’ groups anticipate being able to provide an enhanced level of care and improved outcomes to commercial BlueCross members…
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Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP) announces provisional acceptance by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting (CKCC) option of CMS’s Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model.
Jun. 15, 2020 - CKP, a physician owned value-based-care organization in South Carolina, has been provisionally accepted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the CMMI/CKCC option. CKP has partnered with physician groups across S.C. in a first of its kind arrangement with CMS aimed at improving renal patient outcomes…
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Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP) announces a new Value-Based- Care agreement with REACH Kidney Care (Reach) serving renal care patients across South Carolina
Jul. 5, 2020 - CKP is a physician owned value-based-care organization in South Carolina with clinical sites throughout SC. Reach kidney care is focused on improving the lives of patients with kidney disease. The goal of this partnership is to provide a new level of care to select patients in SC with chronic kidney disease (CKD) treated by CKP physicians…
Carolina Kidney Partners and Conduce Health partner in Innovative Value-Based Approach to Improve Outcomes for Medicare patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Charleston, SC, November 13, 2023
Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP), a multi-state, physician-owned, physician led organization and Conduce Health, a value based multispecialty care management company announce an innovative partnership. Chronic kidney disease impacts 23% of Medicare patients. Many of whom start unplanned dialysis, which results in a drastic impact to quality of life and 25% increased mortality. All eight physician groups with more than 140 providers united under CKP are fully committed to provide an enhanced level of care through a value-based approach that rewards preventative, evidence-based care. The goal of this new initiative is to improve the outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease.
CKP will be responsible for care management of patients with chronic kidney disease in South Carolina, Georgia, and growing geographies. That includes responsibility for best in class data analytics and care coordinators embedded in each nephrology practice location. CKP will offer personalized patient care including patient outreach, patient education and transplant referral. All of which supports a multi-faceted approach that focuses on delaying progression of kidney disease, improving the transition to dialysis, increasing the use of transplantation, and increasing the number of patients with home dialysis.
Partnering with Conduce Health enables complex CKD patients with multiple comorbidities to be matched with the optimal nephrologist for them and enables these nephrologists to focus on delivering high quality care and participate in value-based arrangements.
Dr. David Mahvi, CEO of Carolina Kidney Partners, said, “We are eager to get started. Our partnership with Conduce will allow CKP’s physician partners to deliver individualized patient care based on their specific needs. Under this agreement, physicians can focus on delivering the optimal care to their patients. Our goal is to achieve higher quality care at a lower cost by prevention rather than treatment. This plan will also allow us to closely partner with each patient’s primary care provider to optimize their health.”
“The platform our physicians have developed anticipates which patients are most at risk for disease progression allowing us to focus clinical attention on that subset of patients. I have been impressed that our mix of software, and on-site care coordination result in more personalized treatment for each patient. We share the vision of Conduce to prevent disease progression by optimizing, personalized specialty care”
Dr. Najib Jai, COO of Conduce, said, “We are incredibly excited to partner with Carolina Kidney Partners. Based on our rigorous data and actuarial science analysis, we identified CKP as a high performance outlier. Their physician-led approach, consistent history of providing excellent nephrology care, and comprehensive platform aligns with Conduce’s mission of building the bridge to value-based specialty care. Having CKP as one of our initial partners in Conduce’s value-based specialty care marketplace provides a strong starting point to better connect specialists and primary care physicians in value-based care.”
Eric Rosow, CEO of Conduce, said, “Across my several decades in the health tech space, I have had the privilege of building high performing and culturally aligned teams and partnerships. This partnership between CKP and Conduce represents an opportunity to radically innovate and provide solutions to the most complex and expensive segment of value-based care – specialty care.” For more information contact Dr. David Mahvi at: mahvi@carolinakidneypartners.com.
About Carolina Kidney Partners
CKP is an organization conceived and owned by physicians to better serve physician groups and their patient populations. CKP’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through value-based-care, while providing physician groups the contracting, analytical and care coordination/delivery competencies to confidently engage with payers in valuebased contracts. Carolina Kidney Partners is a group of more than 130 nephrology providers in the Southeast US.
About Conduce Health
Conduce Health is a value-based specialty care marketplace. Conduce's platform provides personalized specialty care networks for at-risk primary care organizations, streamlines value-based care contracting and payment processes for specialists, and uses proprietary algorithms to optimize the matching of complex patients to high performing specialists. Conduce’s mission is to build the bridge to value-based specialty care and realize the vision of a world where patients receive personalized specialty care the first time, every time – all the time.
Carolina Kidney Partners and Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates (The Kidney Docs) Join in Innovative Value-Based Approach to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Charleston, SC, Oct. 22, 2021
Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP), a multi-practice, physician-owned organization is proud to announce the addition of Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates to CKP. The partnership with Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates expands the footprint of Carolina Kidney Partners in both the commercial insurance market and Medicare. Through value-based agreements, an approach that rewards agreed upon quality metrics rather than fee for service, CKP’s fully committed physician groups anticipate being able to provide an enhanced level of care leading to improved outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease.
CKP will be responsible for care coordination at Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates as it is for all CKP practices. This includes responsibility for best in class data analytics, practice embedded care coordinators and value-based contracting. Care coordination will include patient-centric outreach, patient education focused on home dialysis modalities, transplant, and behavioral determinants of health. This multi-faceted approach focuses on delaying progression of kidney disease, improving the transition to dialysis, increasing the use of transplantation and increasing the number of patients on home therapies.
Dr. Dana Kumjian, CEO of Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates said, “We are excited and honored to join forces with our colleagues at Carolina Kidney Partners. Our lives are dedicated to providing our patients and their families with the finest of care as we seek to enhance health and improve the quality of life for those we serve. We were pleased to find a group that strives to provide honest and excellent care just as we do - in the clinic with face to face patient engagement.”
Dr. David Mahvi, CEO of Carolina Kidney Partners, agreed. He said, “We are eager to get started. Our partnership with Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates will free our new physician partners to deliver more individualized patient care with less paperwork. We hope to achieve higher quality care at a lower cost by prevention rather than treatment. The focus on patient-centric care at Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates make this a perfect fit for CKP. We also are excited to bring the leaders of Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates into the development of new interventions and the strategic growth of CKP.”
Dr. Joseph Brannigan, Chief Medical Officer of Carolina Kidney Partners said, “The platform our physicians developed anticipates which patients are most at risk for disease progression allowing us to focus our attention on that subset of patients. I have been 2 impressed that our mix of software, and care coordination results in more personalized treatment. We share the vision of Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates to prevent disease progression. We believe that high touch patient care driven by technology is the best way to improve the health of our patients.”
Thousands of individuals are diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in South Carolina and Georgia each year. The disease disproportionately affects African Americans. The most common cause of kidney failure is diabetes, and the second leading cause of chronic kidney disease is hypertension.
For more information contact Dr. David Mahvi at: mahvi@carolinakidneypartners.com or Dr. Joe Brannigan at: brannigan@carolinakidneypartners.com
About Carolina Kidney Partners
CKP is an organization conceived and owned by physicians to better serve physician groups and their patient populations. CKP’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through value-based-care, while providing physician groups the contracting, analytical and care coordination/delivery competencies to confidently engage with payers in valuebased contracts. Carolina Kidney Partners is a group of more than 130 nephrology providers in the Southeast US.
About Nephrology & Hypertension Medical Associates
Since 1969, our focus and specialty has been diagnosing and treating patients with kidney related diseases and hypertension. We also provide hemodialysis services, peritoneal dialysis, renal transplant referrals, and care following transplantation.
Carolina Kidney Partners and BlueCross Join in Innovative Value-Based Approach To Improve Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Columbia, SC, Feb. 22, 2021
Hoping to achieve higher quality care at a lower cost by prevention rather than treatment, Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP), a five practice, physician-owned organization in South Carolina and BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina announce an innovative partnership. Through a value-based arrangement, which is an approach that rewards agreed upon quality metrics rather than payment for individual tests and treatments, CKP’s fully committed physicians’ groups anticipate being able to provide an enhanced level of care and improved outcomes to commercial BlueCross members who have chronic kidney disease.
CKP will be responsible for care management of patients. That includes responsibility for best in class data analytics and care coordinators embedded in each practice location. Other material oversight of personalized patient care could include more intensive patient outreach, patient education and nutrition counseling. All of which supports a multi-faceted approach that focuses on delaying progression of kidney disease, improving the transition to dialysis, increasing the use of transplantation and increasing the number of patients with home dialysis.
Dr. Shawn Stinson, senior vice president of healthcare innovation and improvement at BlueCross, said, “We are fortunate in South Carolina to have physicians like those in Carolina Kidney Partners who are willing to think progressively about maximizing health for their patients and our members. We are pleased to be able to partner with them, and to invest in their efforts to halt or delay disease progression, thus helping people lead healthier lives.”
Dr. David Mahvi, CEO of Carolina Kidney Partners, agreed. He said, “We are eager to get started. Our partnership with BlueCross will free CKP’s physician partners to deliver more individualized patient care. Under this agreement, physicians can focus on delivering the best care to their patients. We hope to achieve higher quality care at a lower cost by prevention rather than treatment.”
Dr. Joseph Brannigan, chief medical officer of Carolina Kidney Partners said, “The platform our physicians developed anticipates which patients are most at risk for disease progression allowing us to focus our attention on that subset of patients. I have been impressed that our mix of software, and care coordination results in more personalized treatment. We share the vision of BlueCross to prevent disease progression.”
According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, it is estimated that there are several thousand people diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in South Carolina, with the disease disproportionately affecting African Americans. The most common cause of kidney failure is diabetes, and the second leading cause of chronic kidney disease is uncontrolled high blood pressure.
For more information contact Dr. David Mahvi at: mahvi@carolinakidneypartners.com or Dr. Joe Brannigan at: brannigan@carolinakidneypartners.com
About Carolina Kidney Partners
CKP is an organization conceived and owned by physicians to better serve physician groups and their patient populations. CKP’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through value-based-care, while providing physician groups the contracting, analytical and care coordination/delivery competencies to confidently engage with payers in value- based contracts. Carolina Kidney Partners is a group of more than 90 nephrology providers throughout the state of SC.
About BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Headquartered in Columbia and operating in South Carolina for 74 years, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The only South Carolina-owned and operated health insurance carrier, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina comprises more than 20 companies involved in health insurance services, U.S. DoD health program and Medicare contracts, other insurance and employee benefits services, and a philanthropic foundation that funds programs to improve health care and access to health care for South Carolinians. It holds an A+ rating from A.M. Best.
Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP) announces a new Value-Based- Care agreement with REACH Kidney Care (Reach) serving renal care patients across South Carolina.
Charleston, SC July 5, 2020
CKP is a physician owned value-based-care organization in South Carolina with clinical sites throughout SC. Reach kidney care is focused on improving the lives of patients with kidney disease. The goal of this partnership is to provide a new level of care to select patients in SC with chronic kidney disease (CKD) treated by CKP physicians. Reach will bring health resources, education, and state of the art care coordination to CKP practices throughout South Carolina.
We expect this partnership to improve the outcome of patients with chronic kidney disease.“Nephrology practices have had some experience with value-based arrangements in the past, but Carolina Kidney Partners is really offering us the guidance that’s so critical when entering this emerging model,” said Dr. Joe Brannigan, Chief Clinical Officer of CKP. “Partnering with CKP will allow us to ‘supercharge’ care planning & coordination across the state, apply the right analytics across the enterprises and enter the right VBC agreements with payers. Our partnership with Reach is tangible evidence of how to better serve our patients”.
About Carolina Kidney Partners
CKP is an organization conceived and owned by physicians to serve physician groups and their patient populations. CKP’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through value-based-care, while providing physician groups the contracting, analytical and care coordination/delivery competencies to confidently engage with payers in value-based contracts.
For more information please contact:
Dr. David Mahvi at: mahvi@carolinakidneypartners.com
Dr. Joe Brannigan at: brannigan@carolinakidneypartners.coman@carolinakidneypartners.com
Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP) announces the addition of Michael Marmor to the CKP management team as Chief Technology Officer.
Charleston, SC August 14, 2020
Michael Marmor has 26 years of software engineering and technical team management experience across a broad spectrum of sectors, including commercial software, telecom, internet, education, global nonprofit, medical, and financial services. Michael has been a principal in multiple fast-growing startups and a technical advisor and CTO for numerous early-stage technology companies. He holds a US patent for his work in peer-to-peer networking and a CLIO award recognizing technological innovation and creative excellence for a major global retail brand. Michael is a specialist in software development outsourcing and has worked with 80 nearshore and offshore software development firms in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe on over 100 projects over the last two decades. Michael is a graduate of the University of Kansas but now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and young son. He is a dedicated yoga practitioner, an open-source contributor, and a fan of acoustic bluegrass music.
CKP is a physician owned value-based-care organization based in South Carolina. CKP physician groups are spread across S.C. and allow access for almost the entire population of S.C. to nephrology care. In a first of its kind arrangement with Medicare, CKP will focus on improving renal patient outcomes through a Value-Based-Care model. The goal is to provide a new level of care to patients in S.C. with chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKP physicians will be responsible for the comprehensive care of a material portion of Medicare’s CKD patient population in S.C..
“Key to the success of value-based care is the ability to identify patients who need preventive intervention to avert progression of kidney disease.” said Dr. David Mahvi, CEO of Carolina Kidney Partners. “Michael is the perfect fit to integrate our analytic systems into the workflow of our clinicians. We are excited to have him on board.”
“We have always had our hands tied by regulations when we wanted to offer preventive care to patients with chronic kidney disease” said Dr. Joseph Brannigan CMO of Carolina Kidney Partners. “Michael will develop a platform that allows us to treat patients before disease progression by focusing on both medical needs and social needs- getting to appointments, food, drug reconciliation. I have been impressed with his mix of software skills and empathy for our patients.”
For more information or to discuss how CKP might benefit your physicians’ group, please contact Dr. David Mahvi at: mahvi@carolinakidneypartners.com or Dr. Joe Brannigan at: brannigan@carolinakidneypartners.com
About Carolina Kidney Partners
CKP is an organization conceived and owned by physicians to better serve physician groups and their patient populations. CKP’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through value-based-care, while providing physician groups the contracting, analytical and care coordination/delivery competencies to confidently engage with payers in value-based contracts.
Carolina Kidney Partners (CKP) announces provisional acceptance by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting (CKCC) option of CMS’s Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model.
Charleston, SC June 15, 2020
CKP, a physician owned value-based-care organization in South Carolina, has been provisionally accepted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the CMMI/CKCC option. CKP has partnered with physician groups across S.C. in a first of its kind arrangement with CMS aimed at improving renal patient outcomes through a Value-Based-Care model. The goal is to engage CKP’s fully committed physicians’ groups to provide a new level of care to CMS patients in S.C. with chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKP will be responsible for the comprehensive care of a material portion of CMS’s CKD patient population in S.C..
“We are eager to get started; our agreement with CMS will free CKP’s physician partners to deliver a new quality of care to their patients,” said Dr. David Mahvi, CEO of Carolina Kidney Partners. “Under this contract, physicians are free of fee-for-service restrictions and can focus on delivering the best medicine to their patients.”
CKP will work with CMS to participate in performance year one, which begins April 1, 2021. CMS is making a second round of applications available during the spring of 2021 (1/1/2022 start) for additional Kidney Care Entities (KCE’s) interested in participating in the CMMI program.
For more information or to discuss how CKP might benefit your physicians’ group, please contact Dr. David Mahvi at: mahvi@carolinakidneypartners.com or Dr. Joe Brannigan at: brannigan@carolinakidneypartners.com
About Carolina Kidney Partners
CKP is an organization conceived and owned by physicians to better serve physician groups and their patient populations. CKP’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through value-based-care, while providing physician groups the contracting, analytical and care coordination/delivery competencies to confidently engage with payers in value-based contracts.