Public Reporting
Bassett Accountable Care Partners, LLC is an accountable care organization (ACO), a group of doctors and other healthcare providers who agree to work together with Medicare to give our patients high quality care. Our goal is to deliver seamless, coordinated care for our patients. We are accountable for improving the health and experience of care for our patients and improving their health while reducing health care spending. For general questions or additional information about Accountable Care Organizations, please visit www.medicare.gov or call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) TTY users should call 1-877-486-2048.
ACO Name and Location:
Bassett Accountable Care Partners, LLC
One Atwell Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326
ACO Primary Contact:
Primary Contact Name |
Leonard Lindenmuth, Executive Director |
Primary Contact Phone Number | 607-547-6804 |
Primary Contact Email Address | leonard.lindenmuth@bassett.org |
Organizational Information
ACO Participants | ACO Participant in Joint Venture |
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital |
No |
Bassett Hospital of Schoharie County |
No |
Little Falls Hospital |
No |
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society |
No |
Town of Cherry Valley |
No |
At Home Care Inc. |
No |
O'Connor Hospital |
No |
Member |
Member’s Voting Power – Expressed as a percentage |
Membership Type – |
ACO Participant Legal Business Name/DBA, if Applicable |
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Last Name |
First Name |
Title/Position |
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Ibrahim |
Tommy |
President & CEO BHN Physician |
12% |
ACO participant representative |
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital |
Sellers |
Joseph |
Physician |
12% |
ACO participant representative |
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital |
Knight |
Reginald |
Physician |
12% |
ACO participant representative |
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital |
Lindenmuth | Leonard | ACO CEO | 12% |
ACO participant representative |
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital |
Cohen |
Scott |
ACO Medical Director |
12% |
ACO participant representative |
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital |
Franck |
Walter |
Voting Member |
2% |
Medicare Beneficiary Representative |
|
Stein |
Eric |
Voting Member |
7.6% |
ACO participant representative |
Bassett Hospital of Scoharie County |
Bonderoff |
Scott |
Voting Member |
7.6% |
ACO participant representative |
O’Connor Hospital |
Ogden |
Michael |
Voting Member |
7.6% |
ACO participant representative |
Little Falls Hospital |
Joyner |
Jeffery |
Voting Member |
7.6% |
ACO participant representative |
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital |
Betrus |
Lisa |
Voting Member |
7.6% |
ACO participant representative |
At Home Care, LLC |
Key ACO clinical and administrative leadership:
Leonard Lindenmuth |
ACO Executive |
Scott Cohen, MD |
Medical Director |
John Hogan |
Compliance Officer |
Ronette Wiley |
Quality Assurance / Improvement Officer |
Associated committees and committee leadership
Committee Name |
Committee Leader Name and Position |
Quality Improvement Committee |
Ronette Wiley, Chair |
Compliance – Ethics Committee |
John Hogan, Chair |
Medical Management Committee |
Scott Cohen, MD, Chair |
Operations Oversight Committee |
Leonard Lindenmuth, Chair |
Types of ACO participants, or combinations of participants, that formed the ACO:
- Critical Access Hospital (CAH) billing under Method II
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- ACO professionals in a group practice arrangement
- Hospital employing ACO professionals
- Partnerships or joint venture arrangements between hospitals and ACO professionals
- Networks of individual practices of ACO professionals
- Rural Health Clinic (RHC)
Shared Savings and Losses
Amount of Shared Savings/Losses:
- Second Agreement Period
- Performance Year 2019, $0
- Performance Year 2018, $0
- First Agreement Period
- Performance Year 2017, $0
- Performance Year 2016, $0
- Performance Year 2015, $0
Shared Savings Distribution
- Second Agreement Period
- Performance Year 2019
- Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
- Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
- Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A
- Performance Year 2019
- Second Agreement Period
- Performance Year 2018
- Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
- Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
- Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A
- Performance Year 2018
- First Agreement Period
- Performance Year 2017
- Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
- Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
- Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A
- Performance Year 2016
- Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
- Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
- Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A
- Performance Year 2015
- Proportion invested in infrastructure: N/A
- Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: N/A
- Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: N/A
- Performance Year 2017
Quality Performance Results
2019 Quality Performance Results:
ACO # |
Measure Name |
Rate | ACO Mean |
ACO-1 | CAHPS: Getting Timely Care, Appointments, and Information | 82.42 | 85.86 |
ACO-2 | CAHPS: How Well Your Providers Communicate | 93.57 | 94.11 |
ACO-3 | CAHPS: Patients’ Rating of Provider | 91.66 | 92.69 |
ACO-4 | CAHPS: Access to Specialists | 76.68 | 81.54 |
ACO-5 | CAHPS: Health Promotion and Education | 61.88 | 60.44 |
ACO-6 | CAHPS: Shared Decision Making | 56.22 | 62.78 |
ACO-7 | CAHPS: Health Status/Functional Status | 73.89 | 73.79 |
ACO-34 | CAHPS: Stewardship of Patient Resources | 17.59 | 26.17 |
ACO-45 | CAHPS: Courteous and Helpful Office Staff | 93.42 | 92.84 |
ACO-46 | CAHPS: Care Coordination | 86.44 | 86.89 |
ACO-8 | Risk Standardized, All Condition Readmission | 14.92 | 14.86 |
ACO-38 | All-Cause Unplanned Admissions for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions | 63.20 | 58.15 |
ACO-43 | Ambulatory Sensitive Condition Acute Composite (AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicator (PQI) #91) | 2.44 | 1.87 |
ACO-13 | Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk | 93.17 | 84.04 |
ACO-14 | Preventive Care and Screening: Influenza Immunization | 85.52 | 74.77 |
ACO-17 | Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention | 73.17 | 78.04 |
ACO-18 | Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Clinical Depression and Follow-up Plan | 90.94 | 70.40 |
ACO-19 | Colorectal Cancer Screening | 73.78 | 70.76 |
ACO-20 | Breast Cancer Screening | 83.17 | 73.84 |
ACO-42 | Statin Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease | 77.84 | 82.17 |
ACO-40 | Depression Remission at Twelve Months | 8.11 | 13.58 |
ACO-27 | Diabetes Mellitus: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control | 17.43 | 13.88 |
ACO-28 | Hypertension (HTN): Controlling High Blood Pressure | 78.26 | 75.04 |
For Previous Years’ Financial and Quality Performance Results, please visit data.cms.gov.
Note: In the Quality Performance Results files, search for “Bassett Accountable Care Partners, LLC” to view the quality performance results. This ACO can also be found by using the ACO ID A2612 in the public use files on data.cms.gov.
Payment Rule Waivers
- No, our ACO does not use the SNF 3-Day Rule Waiver.