New York Independent Practice Association

Where providers and payers meet value-based care.

Empire Gate organizes New York's independent and group practices into one accountable network, then partners with health plans on value-based arrangements; giving providers and payers the technology, analytics, and clinical support to win at risk.

Diagram: independent providers connect through Empire Gate, the network, to health plans; members and data flow in, capitation and surplus flow back. Providers Health plans Empire Gate
value-based network
Providers & payers/ Capitation & shared surplus/ Risk adjustment/ Care management/ New York
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What we do

The infrastructure that makes risk work for providers and payers.

Empire Gate is a New York independent practice association. We organize primary care and multispecialty practices into a single accountable network, partner with health plans on value-based arrangements, and carry the operational weight that risk demands.

Capitation replaces the claim-by-claim grind with dependable monthly payments. Shared surplus rewards the savings the network creates. Behind both sits a team handling risk adjustment, quality, and care management.

Providers keep their patients, their brand, and their clinical autonomy. Health plans get one accountable counterparty instead of dozens of disconnected practices.

Stay independent. Trade billing volume for managed outcomes, and share in the value the network creates.

Network footprint

Where the network reaches.

Empire Gate is concentrated where value-based care matters most: New York City and the surrounding counties. Our arrangements span Medicare Advantage, D-SNP, and Managed Medicaid across this footprint.

Westchester Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Long Island
Borough

Brooklyn

Practices14
Specialties9
Members4,200+
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For providers

Six reasons providers join Empire Gate.

Value-based care is hard to do alone. We give independent practices the economics, the tooling, and the clinical support of a much larger organization.

01

Predictable capitation

Move from claim-by-claim billing to dependable monthly payments tied to your attributed members.

02

Shared surplus

When care is well managed, the savings are shared. You earn on the outcomes you drive, not only the visits you bill.

03

Independence intact

No acquisition, no rebrand, no loss of control. You stay independent; we handle the contracting and the operations of risk.

04

Risk adjustment & coding

Certified coders and point-of-care documentation support capture your panel's acuity accurately and compliantly.

05

Quality & care management

Support for quality gaps, annual wellness visits, and high-risk members, so outcomes and scores move together.

06

Technology & analytics

A live view of your panel: gaps, utilization, rising risk, and where the next best action sits.

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For payers

A provider network built to perform on risk.

For health plans, Empire Gate is one accountable, well-run network in place of dozens of disconnected practices: organized, measured, and aligned with you on total cost and quality.

Single counterparty

One accountable network

Contract once with an organized network instead of negotiating practice by practice.

Accuracy

Compliant risk adjustment

Complete, audit-ready documentation that reflects true population acuity.

Quality

Quality & Stars lift

Coordinated HEDIS and quality-gap closure that moves ratings and outcomes together.

Cost

Medical cost management

Disciplined management of avoidable ED, readmissions, and post-acute spend.

Alignment

Shared, at-risk incentives

We take risk alongside you, so our economics track lower total cost of care.

Transparency

Plan-ready reporting

Clear performance reporting across utilization, gaps, and cost of care.

See the full payer story
How performance is won

Surplus is not luck.

It comes from a focused set of levers, worked patiently, member by member. These are the places where value-based performance is actually made.

01

Risk-adjustment gap closure

Capture true panel acuity through complete, compliant documentation.

02

Avoidable ED reduction

Redirect non-emergent visits to the right, lower-cost site of care.

03

Inpatient & readmission management

Tighten transitions of care to keep members out of the hospital.

04

HEDIS quality-gap closure

Close measurable quality gaps that drive both outcomes and ratings.

05

Annual wellness visit completion

Bring members in early to plan care before problems escalate.

06

Referral leakage control

Keep referrals inside high-value, well-coordinated networks.

07

Unseen-member outreach

Reach newly attributed and unseen members before risk compounds.

08

Rising-risk stratification

Find members trending toward high cost while intervention still works.

09

Provider-level variation

Surface cost and quality variation, then coach toward the best patterns.

10

Post-acute & SNF spend

Manage skilled-nursing and post-acute utilization, the costliest tail of care.

Where surplus comes from

The anatomy of a managed dollar.

Surplus is not one big move; it is many disciplined ones. This is roughly how the levers contribute to value created across a population. Illustrative weighting.

Risk-adjustment gap closure
22%
Inpatient & readmission management
16%
Avoidable ED reduction
12%
Post-acute & SNF spend
11%
HEDIS quality-gap closure
9%
Rising-risk stratification
8%
Referral leakage control
7%
Unseen-member outreach
6%
Annual wellness visit completion
5%
Provider-level variation
4%

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How it works

Five steps from fee-for-service to surplus.

Step 01

Join the network

Contract once with Empire Gate; we structure the health-plan arrangement.

Step 02

Members attributed

Health-plan members are attributed to your panel.

Step 03

Monthly capitation

Predictable per-member payments replace the billing grind.

Step 04

Analytics & support

We surface gaps and next best actions, with coding, quality, and care teams behind them.

Step 05

Shared surplus

Manage care well, and share in the surplus the network creates.

Case study

How a Brooklyn multispecialty group earned its first surplus.

Read the case study
Technology & heritage

Built inside a healthcare group that has done this before.

Empire Gate draws on more than twenty years of building value-based care, risk-adjustment, and health-technology businesses. That heritage shows up as working infrastructure, not slideware.

20+
Years building
healthcare businesses
9
Healthcare
companies
$1B+
Enterprise value
created

"We wanted to take risk without becoming someone else's clinic. Empire Gate gave us the scale and the analytics, and we kept our practice."

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Trust & compliance

Built to be diligenced.

Providers and health plans share patients and accountability with us, so the standards that matter to them are the standards we build to.

Privacy

HIPAA aligned

Protected health information is handled under HIPAA, with access controls and minimum-necessary discipline.

Agreements

BAA ready

We execute business associate agreements with partners and hold our vendors to the same.

Security

Data security

Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, and audit logging across our systems.

Coding

Compliant by design

Risk-adjustment and documentation work is built for accuracy and audit-readiness, not just yield.

Leadership

Operators, not spectators.

A team that has founded, run, and exited value-based care and risk-adjustment companies for two decades.

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Founder & Chairman

Eric Moskow, MD

Physician and serial healthcare entrepreneur. Founder of MFO Ventures and a succession of value-based care, risk-adjustment, and health-technology companies over more than twenty years, with over a billion dollars in enterprise value created.

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General Manager

Harold Wodinsky

Runs day-to-day operations, network development, and provider and payer partnerships across New York.

Strategy & Corporate Development

Elliot Moskow

Attorney leading deal structuring, partnerships, and the analytics and tooling behind the network.

Chief Financial Officer

Fred Leathers

Finance leadership across capitation economics, surplus accounting, and reporting.

EVP of Provider Relations

Henry Reyes

Serves as the primary point of contact for providers, supporting communication, coordination, and relationship management.

Common questions

What partners ask first.

Do we stay independent?

Yes. There is no acquisition and no rebrand. You keep your patients, your name, and your clinical decisions. Empire Gate handles the payer contracting and the operations of risk around you.

What is capitation, in plain terms?

Instead of billing for each visit, you receive a predictable monthly payment for each attributed member. Manage their care well, and you share in the surplus those savings create.

What does joining cost the practice?

The model is built to reward performance, not to add overhead. We will walk through the specific economics for your panel before anything is signed, so the arrangement is clear from the start.

Who handles risk adjustment and quality work?

We do, alongside your team. Certified coders, point-of-care documentation support, and care-management resources sit behind the network, so the heavy lifting does not fall on your front desk.

What kinds of practices fit?

Primary care and multispecialty practices in New York that see managed-care and value-based members, from solo offices to larger groups. If you see members in risk-based plans, there is likely a fit worth exploring.

We are a health plan. How do we work with Empire Gate?

We contract as one accountable network and can take delegated risk for the populations you serve, with the risk-adjustment accuracy, quality work, and reporting that plans expect. Reach out and we will scope it together.

Bring your organization into value-based care.

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