United Musculoskeletal Partners implements Sharecare’s MIPS value-based care solution; collaboration wins 2026 KLAS Points of Light Award
– Gary Hyman, SVP of Value-Based Care at Sharecare
At Sharecare, we help health plan sponsors, health systems, physician practices, and leading pharmaceutical brands deliver personalized, value-based care at scale across our three business channels. Among the many challenges we solve for health systems and physician practices within Sharecare’s Health Data Solutions channel, we also combine expert services with technology to dramatically reduce administrative burden and improve the quality of care patients receive through our Sharecare Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), where we collect clinical data from the practice and report it to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on their behalf for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
So when United Musculoskeletal Partners (UMP), one of the largest physician-owned shared service organizations of 10 orthopedic practices operating across multiple EHR systems, enlisted us to help overcome their significant administrative burden and the negative financial consequences they had previously experienced within MIPS, we knew we were in a position to help drive value for them.
At the crux of the issue, inconsistent documentation and limited data visibility made it difficult for UMP to capture relevant data and evaluate performance accurately. To address these challenges, the organization implemented Sharecare’s MIPS value-based care platform to standardize MIPS data aggregation, align documentation practices, and integrate performance reporting across disparate systems.
The collaboration between UMP and Sharecare included comprehensive assessments of clinical workflows and data infrastructure, deployment of a unified reporting framework, and establishment of clinician-led governance to ensure consistent adoption and accountability. Further, this approach replaced manual, inconsistent processes with a scalable performance management model, improving visibility into quality metrics and enabling more accurate, real-time risk capture.
As a result, all of UMP’s participating practices eliminated negative payment adjustments and improved MIPS scores year over year. And the organization generated positive payment adjustments while strengthening documentation quality and achieving consistent enterprise-wide reporting – solid results, which we are proud to report recently won a 2026 KLAS Points of Light Award[1] for advancing performance through standardized reporting, improved documentation, and expert coaching and guidance.
The KLAS Points of Light program highlights payor, provider, and technology partnerships that demonstrate measurable impact through alignment, interoperability, and shared performance outcomes. Our recognition as an award winner reflects a broader shift across the healthcare industry: As highlighted in the 2026 KLAS Points of Light report, leading organizations are moving beyond basic interoperability and focusing on how data can drive measurable clinical and financial outcomes.
To learn more about how we collaborated with UMP to eliminate negative payment adjustments for all of their orthopedic practices, improve practices’ MIPS scores year over year, and strengthen enterprise-wide alignment and documentation quality, read the case study from KLAS Research, Standardizing MIPS Reporting & Technology Infrastructure Across Orthopedic Practices. And if you’d like to discuss how Sharecare’s Health Data Solutions – including QCDR and MIPS, release of information, audit fulfillment, form completion, coding, and prior authorization – can help your organization reduce administrative burden and improve financial results, please contact us at connect@sharecare.com.
[1] KLAS Points of Light Awards are given to payor organizations, provider organizations, HIT vendors, and other stakeholders who demonstrate close collaboration that leads to shared outcomes. KLAS validated each submission via a standard set of questions administered during in-depth interviews with representatives from all relevant stakeholders; these questions asked stakeholders to provide (1) an overview of the engagement, (2) engagement outcomes, and (3) best practices and lessons learned. Interviews were conducted from September 2025 through February 2026.
