Why HVN
Many of the challenges that rural hospitals face arise from, or are aggravated, by their small size. They lack scale in patients, purchases, recruitment and more. Cibolo Health enables rural hospitals to gain the advantages of scale while remaining independent. Here are common challenges and how Cibolo Health’s collaborative high-value networks solutions mitigate or solve them.
Problems Facing Rural Healthcare
RURAL HOSPITAL CHALLENGES
- Loss of operational control through health system affiliations
- Patient and service volumes lack critical mass for value-based contracting
- Too few covered lives impedes positive value-based performance
- Payer-designed value-based programs that are not practical in the rural setting
- Lack of purchasing power and inefficient resource utilization
- Underdeveloped clinical and financial data systems
- Relationships with large health systems based on outdated “hub and spoke” model
- Difficult providing isolated physicians with peer-to-peer support
- Inadequate training and support for leaders and managers
- Limited regulatory and payment policy voice and influence
CIBOLO HIGH-VALUE NETWORK SOLUTIONS
- Maintaining control through interdependence with peers
- Combining patients through a clinically integrated network allows single signature contracting
- Aggregating HVN covered lives provides necessary scale for managing value-based risk
- Designing health plan products designed to recognize and reward rural strengths
- HVN shared services builds group purchasing strength and efficient resource utilization
- Implementing a Population Health Platform for real time sharing of cost and quality data
- Supporting valued partnerships based on mutual opportunity and accountability
- Supporting physicians with clinical integration committees composed of their peers
- Sharing learning amoung leaders and managers through roundtables/competency committees
- Serving as the preeminent and authoritative voice for rural healthcare
