A CIN is emerging as the predominant approach to managing populations, engaging in value-based contracts, and in coordinating care among providers.
Clinical Integration is an active and ongoing program to evaluate and modify practice patterns by the network’s physician participants and create a high degree of interdependence and cooperation among the physicians to control costs and ensure quality. And, while Bridges Health Partners is a CIN, from the very beginning, Bridges Health Partners founders’ believed in the concept of the Accountable Care Organization – a direct result of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
As a CIN, Bridges Health Partners focuses on the entirety of healthcare, while keeping the patient right at the center of the vision.