There are dozens of companies fighting for the independent primary care crown, but as of right now it looks like that crown belongs to Aledade. After adding more than 450 new practices in 2023, Aledade is now the nation’s largest network of independent primary care.
How does a value-based care enabler defend that crown? If you’re Aledade, you acquire VBC analytics company Curia to push your advantage.
Curia uses “practical applications of AI” to optimize the targeting of patient care, identify risk gaps, and predict the likelihood of adverse outcomes – three areas core to Aledade’s value-based performance.
- The acquisition follows a pilot where Aledade leveraged Curia’s predictive algorithm to target patients with the highest risk for two-year mortality with advance care planning services. Safe to say that went well.
- Aledade now plans on folding Curia’s tech into its existing solutions while exploring new use cases such as preventing hospitalizations and improving engagement programs.
To give you an idea of what it takes to have the largest independent primary care network in the country, Aledade works with over 1.5k practices, 5k PCPs, and 15k clinicians across 45 states.
- Aledade recently closed a $123M Series E that helped it scale to over two million patients covered by 150+ value-based contracts across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial payors.
- Playing in all of those different arenas gives Aledade a big leg-up on most of its VBC enablement competition. MA-focused comparable agilon health last reported 356k members live on its platform, and Oak Street had 59k at-risk members when it was scooped up by CVS for $10.6B.
The Takeaway
Aledade’s scale and nearly half a billion in funding both seem to suggest that an IPO would be a logical next move, although it’s CEO Dr. Farzad Mostashari is on the record saying “the most likely scenario for Aledade to be able to continue our mission is to remain an independent company.” Although that could just be a headfake, the fact that Aledade recently changed its legal structure to a Public Benefit Corporation suggests that it intends on walking the talk and remaining independent as it focuses on delivering better outcomes for everyone, not just its shareholders.
