Case Study: National Rural ACO reduces readmissions and ED visits with Lightbeam Health Solutions

National Rural ACO - Customer Case Study

National Rural ACO (NRACO), founded and led by Lynn Barr to help rural providers transition from fee‑for‑service to value‑based care, faced limited visibility into disparate clinical, claims, and social data across independent organizations. To qualify for value‑based programs and make timely care‑and‑cost decisions, NRACO needed an analytics solution; they selected Lightbeam Health Solutions and its Population Health Management Analytics Platform to aggregate data, apply quality measures and business logic, and deliver visual insights to the right people at the right time.

Lightbeam Health Solutions deployed its platform to unify claim, clinical, and social data and surface actionable insights—enabling care coordinators to identify high utilizers (like “Patient 84”), intervene outside the ED, and connect patients to appropriate community resources. As a result NRACO achieved measurable improvements: readmissions down 11%, admissions down 13%, ED visits down 5%, ED‑to‑admission ratio down 14%, SNF use down 12%, MRI use down 4% and CT use down 6%, demonstrating clearer care coordination and cost savings.

National Rural ACO

Lynn Barr

Former hospital administrator