The Rural Health Value team is pleased to share a new resource, entitled Introduction to Rural Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs). The purpose of this Rural Health Value topic brief is to define CINs, describe common CIN characteristics, and explore the unique value-based care advantages a rural CIN may bring to its members. The conclusion is that a collaboration of independent rural HCOs, incorporated as a CIN, can achieve the scale and develop the infrastructure necessary to successfully participate in value-based care and payment opportunities. Furthermore, CINs can be a powerful vehicle to deliver better rural health care, healthier rural people, and smarter spending.
Related resources on the Rural Health Value website:
- A Rural Accountable Care Organization’s Journey. For more than a decade, South East Rural Physicians Alliance Accountable Care Organization (SERPA-ACO) – a physician-led ACO that includes 16 physician-owned clinics in Nebraska – has been leveraging health care payment and delivery models to provide high quality, comprehensive, coordinated, and patient-centered care at a lower cost.
- Rural Value-Based Care – The Payer Perspective, Rural Health Value Summit Report. The Rural Health Value team convened professionals and executives from national and regional health care payer organizations to share and explore insights, innovations, successes, and challenges in rural health value-based care (VBC) contracting. This report summarizes challenges and solutions followed by suggestions for rural health care organization leaders from the Summit participants.
Rural Health Value facilitates the transition of rural healthcare organizations, payers, and communities from volume-based to value-based health care and payment models. Visit www.ruralhealthvalue.org
Contact information: Clint MacKinney, MD, MS, Co-Principal Investigator, clint-mackinney@uiowa.edu