Carol Corp. offers a full set of Accountable Care Organization (ACO) strategies and solutions to help providers successfully transition to accountable care. Once a qualitative and quantitative Opportunity Assessment is completed, Carol provides its clients with a customized ACO Roadmap. The ACO Roadmap outlines the orchestrated application of Carol's clinical integration, care redesign, payment reform, and financial and clinical performance management system solutions. All the Carol ACO solutions are fueled by the Carol Clinical Analytics platform and customized payer/provider data warehouse.

Optum is made up of three market-leading businesses — OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx — which together form a leading information and technology-enabled health services business platform. OptumInsight specializes in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology and consulting services that enable better decisions and results.

Carol Corp. was engaged in 2008 by a large Minneapolis health system to be its partner in their transformation to value-based care. This system's goals were aggressive, ambitious and achieved. Following the Carol ACO Roadmap and principle of simultaneous care and payment redesign, this health system is now a national leader in the ACO movement. The program, which started as a demonstration, significantly reduced total cost of care and improved quality of care. Because of its measurable and sustainable success, the Carol solution is currently being installed in all the system's primary care clinics. Read more about this exciting case study.