A CIN is a physician-led entity where participants organize into a single network focused on performance improvement and achieving healthcare’s Triple AIM. A CIN can collectively engage payers to contract and reward the network based on Triple Aim performance for attributed populations.
The Triple Aim refers to the simultaneous pursuit of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. CNY AIM paraphrases that powerful academic statement to “Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs”. The IHI Triple Aim framework was developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts (www.ihi.org).