Geisinger Health Plan Collaborates with RowdMap to Deliver High-Quality Care to Members

LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and RowdMap have agreed to collaborate to increase the delivery of high-quality care in Pennsylvania.

As part of this multi-year agreement, GHP will use RowdMap Inc.'s Risk-Readiness® service data to identify and develop relationships or contractual arrangements with providers who can deliver high-quality care to GHP members. Using RowdMap Inc.'s technology platform and tactical support, providers will also have access to data to help reduce unnecessary tests, procedures and services that are a burden to each member's well-being and financial peace of mind.

"We're excited to collaborate with Geisinger Health Plan who has a strong reputation for exceptional quality and a proven track record of leveraging innovation to provide its members with access to cost-effective health care," said Josh Holmes, executive vice president of business development for RowdMap, Inc.

"We are committed to improving the lives of our members. As we evaluate the composition of our provider network, RowdMap helps by providing data to identify providers who deliver high-quality and cost-effective care," said Jason Renne, chief strategic partnership officer of Geisinger Health Plan.

About Geisinger Health Plan

Geisinger Health Plan, begun in 1985, is headquartered in Danville, Pennsylvania. Geisinger Health Plan's HMO, PPO and Geisinger Gold's HMO are among the highest-rated private and Medicare health plans in the nation.* The plan serves approximately 586,000 members in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maine. Coverage is available for businesses of all sizes, individuals and families, Medicare beneficiaries, Children's Health Insurance Program and Medical Assistance recipients. For more information, please visit TheHealthPlan.com.

*NCQA's Private and Medicare Health Insurance Plan Ratings 2016-2017. Geisinger Health Plan's PPO is listed in NCQA Health Insurance Plan Ratings under Geisinger Quality Options. Geisinger Gold HMO is listed in NCQA Health Insurance Plan Ratings under Geisinger Health Plan.

About RowdMap

An Ernst and Young EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® winner, RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® benchmarks help health plans, physician groups, and hospital systems identify, quantify, and reduce no-value care that physicians deliver- a central tenet of successful pay-for-value programs.

Through practice patterns and referral analysis, RowdMap's benchmarks identify the health care entities that manage unwarranted and unexpected variation in care. This variation leads to more than $850 Billion in no-value care annually. Payers and physicians use RowdMap's physician and population health benchmarks to create strategies that put these highest performing physicians at the center of networks and then design products, organize clinical programs, and coordinate sales and marketing around them.

RowdMap's platform comes preloaded with benchmarks for every physician, hospital, and zip code in the United States- no IT integration required. RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® Platform works across all market segments and has significantly larger returns than traditional medical economics approaches. Learn more at www.RowdMap.com

Media Contacts:

For RowdMap:
Laura Sandman  
[email protected]

For Geisinger Health Plan:
Kayla Greco
570-214-7241

SOURCE RowdMap, Inc.

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