The Compact: What the Atlantic Alliance will do for you

As a member in the Atlantic Alliance CIN, the Alliance will:

1. Include you and your group as a member of the Physician Membership Association

  • Provide membership in a group that will appoint delegates from the association to the Clinical Quality and Strategy Council, which will shape the future direction of the Atlantic Alliance

2. Perform a practice assessment to determine the ability to be successful in value-based and potential risk-based reimbursement models

  • Work with your team to fill out a practice readiness assessment, review the assessment with our management group, share this information with practice leadership and recommend which of our contracts and contracting entities best fit your profile

3. Offer educational and training programs to help you succeed in value-based care and population health

  • Provide access to weekly webinars on a wide variety of topics in clinical transformation
  • Provide access to a library of content from past webinars

4. Connect you to our technology solutions

  • Provide access to solutions required by your particular contracting group including population health software for our ACOs, or connections to Epic’s Care Link where you can view all activity of your patients within Atlantic Health System
  • Provide access to communications solutions, such as secure text messaging

5. Provide value-based payments in accordance with the underlying contract groups

  • If you are in a value-based contract in our ACOs, you will receive care management fees monthly, based on those contracts
  • If you are in our IPA, you will have access to any enhanced FFS rates we can offer you based on payer agreements



 

The Compact: What you will do for the Atlantic Alliance CIN

As a member in the Atlantic Alliance CIN, the physician/provider will:

1. Adopt and adhere to physician-developed standards to improve quality and efficiency

  • Work toward the goals and metrics targets identified by the Clinical Integration Committee of the IDS network, or its contracting entities
  • Evaluate and share clinical processes to reach targets as appropriate

2. Agree to be measured and share information to facilitate measurement

  • Share clinical and business data as appropriate
  • Utilize a network-selected data aggregator tool to collect the data for performance measurement

3. Collaborate with Atlantic Alliance participants to improve performance

  • Participate in and contribute to regional clinical management forums and/or network workgroups to review performance, share clinical processes and make recommendations to improve care delivery
  • Develop a Medical Neighborhood with your preferred specialists or primary care physicians

4. Promote, refer to and communicate with Atlantic Alliance participants appropriately and effectively

  • Work effectively with other network participants
  • Refer patients within the network when appropriate and in accordance with patient preference

5. Adopt technology offered and/or recommended by the Atlantic Alliance, including high-speed internet access, E-prescribing, disease registry and data exchange tools

  • Begin migration to connectivity solutions that will allow sharing of clinical information