We refer to this concept as “physician-directed population health”. Through pay-for-performance or shared savings agreements with payers and employers, we seek to share in the financial rewards of higher quality and lower cost care delivery.
Owned, led and governed by physicians
The Women & Children’s Health Alliance is owned and governed by the physician members of the Alliance. As independent pediatricians we sincerely believe that independent ownership drives improvement in quality and reduction in cost.
Actively engaged in advancing patient care and quality while lowering utilization and costs of health care
Our Quality committee designs best practice care protocols to improve quality. Our independent nature and low overhead ensures low cost.
Innovating the models of care that work best for “purchasers” of health care (which include not only governmental and commercial payors but also patients and employers)
We understand that patients are responsible for more of their healthcare costs today than they were in the past. Our model is designed to give patients and physicians high quality and low cost options for their care.
Equipped with an infrastructure of effective and science-based population health tools in the form of people, processes and technology
Our award winning and state of the art population health management system is designed to help practices address processes and technology to improve care. Our care managers help practices implement procedures to succeed in value based agreements.
Paid for creating value through these efforts
Our shared savings contracts with insurance companies allow for incentive arrangements for our practices.
The WCHHA has helped me collaborate with other like minded individual physician practices in my area – a chance I rarely had before”. The opportunity to work together has been extremely rewarding.
Joining WCHHA has allowed me to think about population health in a whole different manner. Without WCHHA, I would never have had the chance to review data in the way that we can in WCHHA.
The data that WCHHA can pull from my EMR is remarkable. The dashboard is terrific and really helps synthesize data into a meaningful dashboard.
