{"id":31950,"date":"2026-07-07T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=85a22f99b79979971286682a63efa3b3"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:09:00","slug":"uchealth-partners-with-avant-garde-health-to-strengthen-surgical-performance-under-cms-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=31950","title":{"rendered":"UCHealth Partners with Avant-garde Health to Strengthen Surgical Performance Under CMS TEAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AURORA, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BundledPayments?src=hash\" >#BundledPayments<\/a>--Avant-garde Health, the leading provider of solutions for improving perioperative quality and efficiency, is working with UCHealth to align its teams and strengthen performance under the <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.gov%2Fpriorities%2Finnovation%2Finnovation-models%2Fteam-model&amp;esheet=54565662&amp;newsitemid=20260707529249&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=CMS+Transforming+Episode+Accountability+Model+%28TEAM%29&amp;index=1&amp;md5=c548e6049507dc3c786a8e296512d427\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM)<\/a>, Medicare\u2019s mandatory bundled payment model for five common surgical episodes.<\/p><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260707529249\/en\/1388758\/4\/logo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260707529249\/en\/1388758\/22\/logo.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260707529249\/en\/1388758\/4\/logo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260707529249\/en\/1388758\/21\/logo.jpg\" \/><\/a><p>\n\u201cProviding the highest quality care and best outcomes is always our top priority,\u201d said Danielle Andrade, UCHealth vice president of care continuum integration. \u201cAvant-garde is providing our care teams and operational leaders with essential cost and efficiency data so we can make decisions quickly and consistently across our hospitals [\u2026] It helps us focus on where we can improve care and reduce costs for our patients.\u201d<\/p><p>\nUCHealth and Avant-garde have moved from planning to execution, bringing claims and clinical data together so leaders can govern bundle performance, set shared targets, and act before CMS reconciliation. The shared data have enabled clinical and operational teams to align around the highest-impact opportunities to improve care and succeed under TEAM.<\/p><p>\n\u201cIn most systems, surgeons, finance, and operations are working from different numbers. UCHealth has brought those leaders together around a single source of episode-level truth and a shared set of targets, which is the hardest and most important part of TEAM,\u201d said Derek Haas, CEO and Founder of Avant-garde Health. \u201cGetting that alignment in place before the program matures is what will set their results apart.\u201d<\/p><p>\nUCHealth will speak at Avant-garde\u2019s 2026 Bundled Payment and Care Transformation Summit, August 18 and 19 at the Harvard Club of Boston, joining health system executives, clinicians, and Harvard Business School faculty. Registration and details are available at <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.avantgardehealth.com%2F&amp;esheet=54565662&amp;newsitemid=20260707529249&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=summit.avantgardehealth.com&amp;index=2&amp;md5=2ea60b7ba2ea6af278e7dd21d1339dbd\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">summit.avantgardehealth.com<\/a>.<\/p><p>\n<b>About UCHealth<\/b><\/p><p>\nUCHealth is a nonprofit health system with 37,000 employees and 15 acute-care hospitals across Colorado, Wyoming, and western Nebraska, anchored by University of Colorado Hospital on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, the region\u2019s only adult academic medical center. To learn more, please visit <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uchealth.org%2F&amp;esheet=54565662&amp;newsitemid=20260707529249&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=uchealth.org&amp;index=3&amp;md5=73cc6887c6f6620da74428104d358835\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">uchealth.org<\/a>.<\/p><p>\n<b>About Avant-garde Health (AGH)<\/b><\/p><p>\nAvant-garde Health provides surgical care analytics. Combining claims and clinical data, Avant-garde helps hospitals identify opportunities to improve the cost and quality of surgical care. Its work, grounded in value-based care research from Harvard Business School, has been featured in the Harvard Business Review article \u201cHow One Hospital Has Succeeded in a World of Bundled Payments.\u201d To learn more, please visit <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avantgardehealth.com%2F&amp;esheet=54565662&amp;newsitemid=20260707529249&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=avantgardehealth.com&amp;index=4&amp;md5=0a52bd8517f6e3b213e48ebe4ea2ef69\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">avantgardehealth.com<\/a>.<\/p><br\/> <b>Contacts<\/b> <br\/><p>\nDerek Haas\n<br\/>CEO and Founder\n<br\/>Avant-garde Health\n<br\/><a  href=\"mailto:derek@avantgardehealth.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">derek@avantgardehealth.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AURORA, Colo.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;#BundledPayments&#8211;Avant-garde Health, the leading provider of solutions for improving perioperative quality and efficiency, is working with UCHealth to align its teams and strengthen performance under the CMS Transformin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31951,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31950\/revisions\/31951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}