Same clinical model. Three partner shapes.
Federally Qualified Health Centers, Medicaid managed care plans, and Accountable Care Organizations all share a problem: open care gaps in the populations they serve. We contract with each of them differently, but the underlying clinical service is the same.
Close UDS gaps without adding staff or adding technology.
FQHCs run on thin operational margins and trailing UDS performance is a chronic concern. We operate as a contracted clinical partner alongside the FQHC, taking direct responsibility for preventive screening delivery while staying out of the medical home relationship.
What makes this work for FQHCs
UDS credit without reconciliation. Completed screenings document back to the partner EHR with CPT and LOINC codes mapped to COL-E, GSD, and KED. No supplemental workflow required.
No EHR integration. Sherwood retrieves clinical history via Carequality and Commonwell. No data use agreement, no IT project, no new vendor approval process.
Co-branded outreach. Members hear from us as an extension of their medical home, not as a separate entity displacing the PCP relationship.
The contracting shape
Grant- and program-funded engagements. Most FQHC partnerships are funded through HRSA grants, state programs, or existing FQHC quality-improvement budgets.
Per-completion or cohort-based. We structure the economics around completed screenings rather than fixed monthly fees, so the FQHC's cost scales with the actual value delivered.
Scalable to sites. Partnerships typically start at one or two sites and expand across a network once operational fit is validated.
Lift measures at home, at scale, for the members traditional outreach misses.
Medicaid plans are accountable for HEDIS performance that often lags commercial benchmarks by double digits. We deliver documented measure closure as a contracted clinical service, built specifically for the populations most plans struggle to engage.
What makes this work for Medicaid plans
HEDIS-aligned documentation. Structured results mapped to COL, HBD, and KED, formatted for whatever supplemental data path your quality team already uses.
Member-first engagement. Bilingual SMS outreach on a clinically validated cadence, designed for how Medicaid members actually respond—not retrofitted from a commercial product.
Segment-level targeting. Narrow to rising-risk members, never-screened members, specific geographies, or specific product lines. The attribution file drives who gets outreach.
The contracting shape
Flexible economic structures. Per-completion, PMPM, or hybrid arrangements designed to fit product-level margin requirements and Stars-bonus incentives.
Fast time to market. First outreach in weeks two to four. Steady-state by week six. We can move the needle inside a current measure year from a mid-year start.
Multi-vendor coexistence. Our HIE queries surface members already screened elsewhere, preventing redundant outreach when the plan has other engagement vendors in market.
Screen attributed lives without burdening participating practices.
ACOs are measured on outcomes across their attributed population, but the tools available to move those outcomes usually route through the participating practices' workflow. We offer a different path: screening performed outside the practice, attributed back to it, counted toward the ACO's measure performance.
What makes this work for ACOs
Zero practice burden. No outreach ask, no workflow change, no staff time from participating practices. We handle end-to-end.
Attribution-aware targeting. Attribution and risk files drive member prioritization, starting with rising-risk and never-screened members where the measurement impact is highest.
TIN-level reporting. Monthly reach, completion, and disposition broken out by participating TIN, so the ACO can see where the work is landing.
The contracting shape
Outcome-aligned pricing. Economics structured around measure achievement rather than fixed fees, so the ACO's spend scales with shared-savings realization.
Governance-compatible. Our structure supports the participation-agreement and data-sharing arrangements ACOs already have in place with their participating practices.
Annual or multi-year engagements. Most ACO partnerships align with performance-year cycles and renew based on measure-closure impact.
Let's talk about what you're trying to solve.
Which partner type fits best depends on your measure stack, your data environment, and your workflow. A 30-minute call figures that out faster than any webpage can.
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