Atlantic Health is partnering with Garner Health Technology, an innovative offering the health system feels will improve affordability and timely access to high quality care by providing patients and employers with powerful analytics and insights to find a doctor and receive high-quality care at lower costs.
Here’s how it works:
- Garner leverages one of the nation’s most robust medical data sets – covering over 60 billion medical records from 320 million patients – to identify doctors who follow the latest research, avoid unnecessary procedures, and help patients get healthy faster.
- When employees of enrolled companies use the database to find and receive care from a Garner identified Top Provider, the employer helps to cover the patient’s out-of-pocket costs (deductibles and co-pays).
- Through this partnership, Garner will help employees at participating employers more easily find and access high-performing physicians at Atlantic Health, and Atlantic Health will use Garner’s data to inform its quality improvement work.
- As a result, employees pay on average 80% less out-of-pocket to see the best doctors, while employers see an average 12% reduction in total healthcare spend in the first year alone.
Please note: Both sides said Garner’s algorithm remains independent, ensuring employees can find the highest-quality care at an affordable cost. Together, the partnership expands patient access to great doctors while helping employers manage rising healthcare costs.
“Atlantic Health is committed to providing better outcomes at a lower cost,” Atlantic Health CEO Saad Ehtisham said. “As leaders in value-based care through our accountable care organizations, exciting partnerships – like the one we are announcing today with Garner – demonstrate that we are challenging ourselves to lead the nation in bending the cost curve for patients and their families.”
As U.S. companies grapple with the rising cost of providing health benefits, Atlantic Health feels this partnership represents a unique commitment from organizations that span the health care ecosystem to develop solutions that improve quality while reducing the total cost of care.
The partnership matches Ehtisham’s view of advance technology, which he calls a tool not a transformation.
Atlantic Health is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 25,000 team members and more than 5,667 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people.
