WCAS: Investing in Better Healthcare

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clinicians to grow provider capacity and promote the standard of care across specialties. WCAS understands that quality care delivery is an iterative process of learning, adaptation, tracking, and reporting. All of our portfolio companies engage in a core set of clinical quality processes. Our commitment to quality goes beyond our internal processes to include the engagement of nationally Our boards use balanced scorecards to align management incentives to operational objectives, quality outcomes, and compliance measures – not just financial performance – that are measured against industry standards. This aligns owners and management teams to deliver differentiated quality for the long term. recognized experts who conduct objective assessments of quality processes and results.

All physicians who partner with our portfolio companies retain clinical autonomy and decision-making authority to independently direct the practice of medicine and control decision making in their care models. This arrangement is legally protected in perpetuity, surviving after we have exited our investments. Physicians at our portfolio companies are almost all subspecialty trained from major training programs. They are national leaders within their subspecialties, sit on program committees, and hold leadership positions in professional societies and state organizations that set national standards of care. They also invest significant personal time and enterprise resources to conduct medical research and help train residents and other

Every practice that joined U.S. Anesthesia Partners improved their performance on CMS’ Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

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MIPS is CMS’ national Quality Payment Program that measures performance across quality, improvement activities, promoting interoperability, and cost.

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