For Clinicians
The Highland Healthcare Associates IPA (Highland), a not-for-profit physician organization with nearly 350 members, is dedicated to raising the quality of patient care, preserving physician independence and autonomy, and improving the professional lives of our physicians. If you are a physician who values your independence, and desires:
- Membership in an organization dedicated to preserving private practice, and is run by practicing physicians, rather than hospital or system administrators,
- To keep your current Community Hospital affiliation, and
- To select or keep your current Electronic Medical Record
If you are a physician (or represent a physician), you are invited to contact the Highland Healthcare Associates IPA by clicking here or by calling 781-756-2160.
Since our formation in 1990, Highland has been governed by a Board of Directors comprised solely of full-time practicing physicians, a majority of whom are primary care physicians. Our physician organization is supported by a devoted team of Provider Relations & Contract Operations and Quality & Performance Improvement (QPI) professionals, and several PCP and Specialist Medical Directors (who are practicing physicians in our IPA).
We have a history of negotiating market competitive health insurer contracts and a track record of strong risk contract performance. We also offer a variety of Business Support services including preferred pricing for supplies, IT services, medical malpractice insurance and more to help our private practices with expense management.
In addition, we offer EMR and Health Information Exchange (HIE) services to our Physicians through our “sister” organization, Highland Management. This dedicated team assists our physician practices with optimization and support of EMR systems (e.g. MACRA), and they manage a Clinical Summary Repository (CSR). The Highland leadership believes that our physicians should have choices when selecting an EMR. Our CSR enables our physicians on several different “supported EMR products” to centrally share patient information in a secure and HIPAA compliant manner.
Clinical integration is an active and ongoing set of programs, infrastructure and contracting, with the goal of measuring and improving the quality and efficiency of patient care. Since 2005, we have been working diligently to further clinical integration within our Highland community of primary care physicians (PCPs) and across our larger physician network, the new Tufts Medicine Integrated Network (TMIN). The physicians of New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA) and Lowell General PHO, 22O0 strong, came together in July 2021 to form the TMIN.
Highland first affiliated with NEQCA in September 2009. Together with NEQCA and the TMIN, we hold several commercial insurer contracts and participate in both Medicare and Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Our dedicated Provider Relations team is here to support you with managing these payor relationships, trouble-shooting issues, and enrolling and on-boarding new physicians and staff in your practices.
Highland is passionately committed to the quadruple aim: improving quality, efficiency, patient experience and physician satisfaction. Our PRIDE (Providing Incentives for the Delivery of Excellent) Patient Care Program aligns the physicians’ incentives with the Quadruple Aim. The PRIDE program includes significant efforts to better integrate the shared patient care responsibilities and collegiality between Highland PCPs, Highland Specialists and TMIN Specialists and to strengthen the collaboration within our community and across our network.
Let’s explore how the Highland Healthcare Associates IPA can keep your practice independent and thriving, and how we can be put to work for you.
March 2022
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