UC San Diego Health Affiliated Network

Our network offers a framework for successfully adapting to evolving payer models, including MACRA. We believe that combining resources to achieve performance-based incentive targets helps protect the integrity and individuality of each of our affiliates, too.

Our Affiliated Network is not an exclusive arrangement. There is no employee/employer relationship. You can continue to participate as an independent practice while leveraging UC San Diego Health resources, such as EMR and practice management software solutions, and marketing and co-branding.

UC San Diego Health has long been a leader in technology.

In order to support quality reporting and care management, especially as we enter into value-based payment arrangements with select payers, affiliated practices must utilize a federally-certified EMR with Health Information Exchange (HIE) capabilities.

We provide everyone in our network access to EPIC Link, a web-based platform that provides a seamless connection to UC San Diego Health's EPIC. Use of EPIC Link provides improved health care delivery, enables integrated coordination of care for shared patients, and is the best way to improve quality and control costs.

Our network encourages and empowers health care providers to share knowledge, collaborate and innovate. Affiliates have expanded access to medical specialists across the care continuum and may work with UC San Diego Health medical specialists to jointly develop specialty-specific quality measures and clinical protocols to improve patient care and population health.

UC San Diego Health works with the affiliated practices to participate together in HMO and PPO products with selected payers. In return, faculty and community physicians commits to developing clinical programs that improve access, quality and efficiency.

UC San Diego Health works with select health plan partners to develop new products and launch them in the market with our affiliated physicians as key providers in the network—targeting regional employers, and committing to deliver value to their employees and dependents

As a network provider, you have the opportunity to collaborate with UC San Diego Health while promoting the relationship in your geographic area.

• Leverage of UC San Diego Health’s market expertise with service line development
  
• Collaboration with UC San Diego Health faculty in your specialty
• Development of professional biographies and head shots
  
• Increase practitioner visibility to health care consumers through inclusion in UC San Diego Health’s award-winning provider profile website, Find A Provider.
  

Benefits of Co-Branding

Successful co-branding brings value to both organizations by representing a more compelling package of benefits to local patients than either brand could bring on its own. Elective marketing campaigns allow your practice to:

• Expand patient awareness of the Affiliated Network and its relationship with your organization.
  
• Support the successful delivery of the Affiliated Network programs in your community.
• Differentiate your organization from others offering specialty care in your geographic area.
  
• Promote your participation in a quality network.
• Increase market share.