Case Study: Bridges Health Partners achieves improved care coordination and measurable cost savings with NextGen Healthcare

Bridges Health Partners Supports Physician-Led Care Teams with Vital Population Health Data

Bridges Health Partners is a physician-led clinically integrated network based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, formed by four independent non-profit health systems and more than 1,000 physicians to coordinate care for over 90,000 contracted lives across Medicare, Commercial, and Medicaid contracts. The organization needed to manage care across multiple hospitals and practices, track ADT events, close preventive care gaps, and reliably demonstrate quality metrics to earn payer bonuses while expanding its geographic footprint and service lines.

Using NextGen® Population Health and its data warehouse, Bridges identifies high‑risk patients, monitors admissions/discharges statewide via Health Information Exchange feeds, and combines EHR and claims data to close care gaps and verify quality measures. The platform enabled targeted outreach and SDOH interventions, helped correct payer metric reports to secure bonuses, and delivered measurable cost performance (an example $600 per-member-per-year savings versus CMS benchmarks), contributing to rare early shared‑savings success in the CMS ACO program.

Bridges Health Partners

Sheldon Bogos

Director Information Technology and Compliance