Membership Benefits
Clinical integration positions physicians, hospitals, payers to work together on improving the health of the community. It creates the foundation that centers on clinical quality.
Participation in a clinically integrated network:
- Rewards uncompensated care that physicians already provide
- Rewards patient health, which is gratifying for physicians
- Rewards teamwork and efficiency
- Provides outcomes feedback to help improve care delivery
- Is the basis of sustainability and financial health in emerging payment systems
- Is a market differentiator which can preserve and build a patient base
What are the benefits of joining?
- Real influence with payers who will otherwise continue to drop FFS rates
- Income supplementation through quality and value-oriented contracts
- 21st century clinical data feedback to help me manage my patients
- Care management support for difficult patients (not reimbursed through FFS)
- Better clinical outcomes
- Better connectedness with providers across the continuum (intra-network hospital and physician information transfer)
- The ability to define and objectively demonstrate my quality
- A meaningful roles in governance and determining my future