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For Patients

Highland Healthcare Associates Independent Physicians Association (IPA), established in 1990, is a voluntary organization of approximately 75 independent primary care and approximately 270 specialist physicians located in the Winchester/Woburn areas, with locations stretching as far west as Concord, as far south as Winthrop, as far east as Lynnfield and as far north as Andover. Our primary care physicians are not employed by a system, but instead are in private practices delivering high touch, personalized primary care to pediatric and adult patients. Our primary care members include Pediatricians, Family Medicine physicians, and Internal Medicine physicians, in many practices supported by Nurse Practitioners and/or Physician Assistants. They focus on the needs of each individual patient and the patient’s unique set of circumstances while at the same time practicing within the context of ‘Population Health’, a concept that describes an emphasis on preventive care and chronic disease management delivered in ways that promote optimum health in partnership with each patient.

Physician members refer to high quality, high value providers to help you manage your healthcare dollars while at the same time receiving great care. We are proud members of the Wellforce Clinically Integrated Network, which extends our geography from as far north as Lowell and as far south to the Cape, and extending west to the Metrowest area. Additionally, the network includes the services that Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Children’s Hospital provide at both the Boston campus and multiple physician satellite locations that help you get your care closer to home. Our physicians provide telehealth and in person services as appropriate and in most instances offer healthcare portals to further engage with you to manage your care.

Please visit our Physician Profiles page to meet our Primary Care Physicians, and check back soon as we evolve and publish our Specialist Profiles. You can also access our Directories for a complete list of physicians within the Highland IPA. You can reach out directly to any of the physicians listed to see if they are a fit for your vision for your personal health. You can also click here to contact us if you have questions.

For Clinicians

The Highland Healthcare Associates IPA (IPA), a not-for-profit physician organization with nearly 340 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, rather than switching to a larger organization or system EMR

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 formation of the IPA in 1990, the IPA 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.

In addition, we offer EMR and Health Information Exchange (HIE) services to our IPA Physicians through our “sister” organization, Highland Management. This dedicated team assists our physician practices with adoption of EMR systems and post “live” EMR support (e.g. MACRA), and they manage a Clinical Summary Repository (CSR). The IPA leadership believes that our physicians should have choices when selecting an EMR. Our CSR enables IPA physicians on several different “supported EMR products” to centrally share patient information in a secure and HIPAA compliant manner.

Since 2005, we have been working diligently to further clinical integration within our IPA community of primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialists, and across our larger physician network, New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA). 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.

The IPA first affiliated with NEQCA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tufts Medical Center, in September 2009. Together with NEQCA, 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.

The IPA is passionately committed to the quadruple aim: improving quality, efficiency, patient experience and physician satisfaction. The IPA’s 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 IPA PCPs, IPA Specialists and NEQCA Specialists and strengthen the collaboration within our community and NEQCA 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.

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