For Employers & Purchasers
Turn Your Largest
Health Cost Into a
Strategic Advantage
Behind wages, healthcare is your second-largest expense. For most health plans, cardiovascular disease is their biggest driver. ACC gives self-funded employers a direct lever to manage CV risk: transparent pricing, outcome accountability, and care designed to keep your workforce healthy and on the job.
1.2M
KC adults with some form of CVD
#1
Driver of catastrophic employer health claims
90%
Of cardiologists employed by large health systems
$1.1T
Projected CVD cost burden by 2035
The Market Opportunity
The System Isn’t Working for
Your Bottom Line
Nearly 90% of cardiologists are employed by large, vertically integrated health systems whose strategies are tied to high-cost acute care—not prevention. Demands for value are discordant with an incumbent synergy between traditional insurance plans, health plan brokers, and health systems that all benefit as costs rise.
ACC is uniquely aligned to meet employer demands. By bypassing administrative friction and opaque pricing, employers can secure superior CV outcomes while significantly lowering total cost of care. This is active “buying” of health outcomes—not passive premium payments.
By 2035, nearly 50% of Americans will have some form of CVD, making it the greatest driver of healthcare costs at an estimated $1.1 trillion. The time to act upstream is now.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-Buckminster Fuller
The ACC Difference
- Independent practice — loyalty to patients, not shareholders
- Proactive CV health management, not reactive acute care
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Transparent, bundled pricing with no facility-fee bloat
- Cash-pay model simplifies your revenue cycle and ours
- Outcome accountability built into every partnership
Buy-Side Advantage
What Employers Gain by Partnering
with ACC
Lower Total Cost of Care
CVD is the #1 driver of catastrophic employer health claims. ACC’s direct specialty care model cuts hospital-facility-fee bloat and redirects spend toward proactive prevention—not reactive acute events.
Reduced Absenteeism
By focusing on preventable exacerbations like heart failure, ACC keeps your employees healthy and on the job—minimizing absenteeism, disability claims, and lost productivity.
No Prior Authorization
The direct relationship eliminates the prior authorization bottleneck. Employees get immediate care delivery at low or no cost with a seamless, personalized experience. ACC is rewarded with efficient revenue cycle operations that allow us to expand our offerings.
Transparent Bundle Pricing
Fixed-price bundled CV services—stress tests, echocardiograms, and full episodes of care—at prices substantially below hospital rates. Compatible with FairMarket Health, Turquoise Health, Sesame, and TPA-led exchanges.
Accountability to Outcomes
ACC prioritizes longitudinal management and early intervention, reducing high-cost event-based claims like myocardial infarctions and strokes. Quality metrics and outcome reporting available.
Aligned Incentives
Unlike integrated health systems that benefit as costs rise, ACC thrives by keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital—perfectly aligned with your organization’s financial and human capital goals.
Flexible Models
Four Partnership Models for
Every Employer Strategy
01 Direct Contracting
Bypass insurance intermediaries entirely. ACC contracts directly with self-funded employers, providing premium CV services at negotiated, transparent rates with outcome accountability built in.
02 Narrow Network Design
Design health plans that preferentially direct employees to ACC through tiered benefits or $0-copay incentives. ACC gains steady, directly-reimbursed volume; you get predictable, lower-cost spend.
03 Bundled Payment Arrangements
Fixed-price episodes of care—a preoperative cardiac evaluation, a cardiometabolic management bundle, or executive health evaluations—at prices that include everything. Transparently. With no hidden or excessive facility fees.
04 Value-Based & Capitation
Under Medicare Advantage and VBC frameworks, ACC is uniquely positioned to accept full-risk or shared-savings contracts, earning performance adjustments by demonstrating superior quality, outcomes, and cost-efficiency.
Direct Specialty Care Value
Meeting Every Employee
Where They Are
ACC’s direct care model serves the full spectrum of employees—
from HDHP holders to the uninsured— with transparent
pricing that works for everyone.
The Financially Secure
Personalized, ’boutique’ service with responsive access, long appointments, and a focus on longevity and cardiovascular performance.
HDHP Plan Holders
Pay a fixed, fair price for a bundle instead of facing a $5,000 surprise bill from a legacy health system.
The Uninsured / Underinsured
Affordable, transparent cash pricing that bypasses complex billing and the priced-out reality of ACA market plans.
