University of Iowa Health Care needs millions to dissolve alliance - Vanessa Miller, the Gazette

After committing tens of millions of dollars years ago to craft a network of health care providers capable of pooling abilities and knowledge aimed at better-coordinated care, University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday told the Board of Regents it needs to spend millions more to discontinue the partnership. UI Health Care in March announced it’s exiting the UI Health Alliance, established in 2012 with regional partners, and dissolving that group’s accountable care organization, launched in 2015. This week it said it needs $7.5 million “to meet cash flow requirements to facilitate discontinuance.” http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/health/university-of-iowa-health-care-needs-millions-to-dissolve-alliance-20180606