Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)

ACO Name and Location

• Banner Network Colorado, LLC
  1801 16th Street
  Greeley, CO 80631

ACO Primary Contact

• Kynda Wolfrum, Sr. Director, Government Operations
  Phone: (970) 810-8706
  Email: [email protected]

Organizational Information

ACO Participants:

ACO Participants	ACO Participant in Joint Venture (Enter Y or N)
Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC	N
East Morgan County Hospital	N
Sterling Regional Medical Center	N

 

ACO Governing Body:

Last Name	First Name	Title/Position	Member's Voting Power- Expressed as a percentage	Membership Type	ACO Participant Legal Business Name/DBA, if Applicable
Loecke	Steven	Chair	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Sunderman	Steven	Manager	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Howard	Keiko	Manager	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Valenti	Gina	Manager	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Zeigler	Azure	Manager	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Hopkins	John	Manager	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Redding	Colton	Manager	12.5%	ACO Participant Representative	Banner Health Physicians Colorado, LLC
Jim	Branom	Medicare Beneficiary	12.5%	Medicare Beneficiary Representative	N/A

Key ACO Clinical and Administrative Leadership:

• ACO Executive: Kynda Wolfrum, RN, MSN
• Medical Director: Steven Loecke, MD
• Compliance Official: Michael Baumann
• Quality Assurance/Improvement Officer: Sandra Robles

Associated Committees and Committee Leadership:

• Compliance Committee: Michael Baumann, Compliance Director
• Utilization Review & Quality Management Committee: DeAnn Lubiani

Types of ACO Participants, or Combinations of Participants, That Formed the ACO:

• ACO professionals in a group practice arrangements

 

Shared Savings and Losses

Amount of Shared Savings/Losses

• Second Agreement Period
  • Performance Year 2026, N/A
  • Performance Year 2025, N/A
• First Agreement Period
  • Performance Year 2024, $3,466,294
  • Performance Year 2023, $2,440,223
  • Performance Year 2022, $3,597,614
  • Performance Year 2021, $2,280,643
  • Performance Year 2020, $3,131,284

Shared Savings Distribution

• First Agreement Period
  • Performance Year 2024
    • Proportion invested in infrastructure: 2.5%
    • Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: 2.5%
    • Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: 95%
  • Performance Year 2023
    • Proportion invested in infrastructure: 2.5%
    • Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: 2.5%
    • Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: 95%
  • Performance Year 2022
    • Proportion invested in infrastructure: 2.5%
    • Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: 2.5%
    • Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: 95%
  • Performance Year 2021
    • Proportion invested in infrastructure: 2.5%
    • Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: 2.5%
    • Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: 95%
  • Performance Year 2020
    • Proportion invested in infrastructure: 2.5%
    • Proportion invested in redesigned care processes/resources: 2.5%
    • Proportion of distribution to ACO participants: 95%

 

Quality Performance Results

2024 Quality Performance Results

Quality Performance results are based on the Medicare CQMs collection type.

Measure #	Measure Name	Collection Type	Performance Rate	Current Year Mean Performance Rate (SSP ACOs)
001	Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HBA1c) Poor Control	Medicare COM	7.16	28.04
134	Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-up Plan	Medicare COM	93.45	63.04
236	Controlling High Blood Pressure	Medicare COM	83.03	66.78
479	Hospital-Wide, 30-Day, All-Cause Unplanned Readmission (HWR) Rate for MIPS Groups	Administrative Claims	0.1454	0.1517
484	Clinician and Clinician Group Risk-standardized Hospital Admission Rates for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions (MMC)	Administrative Claims	--	37

For Previous Years’ Financial and Quality Performance Results, please visit data.cms.gov.