CHCI's Principles

Dedication to a Collaborative Health Care System

A collaborative health care system delivers affordable, high-quality and appropriate health care services to everyone through partnered entities as well as educated providers and patients. This system is realized by minimizing unproductive costs, e.g. excessive litigation charges and administrative fees, and establishing more effective communication/relationships between the legislature, government carriers and private sector payors.

Collaboration Health Care, Inc. is dedicated to helping create a collaborative health care system in the by facilitating change and introducing new ideas to the health care market. In the spirit of keeping the end in mind, we have established the following principles or set of beliefs around the changes that need to take place to achieve a truly collaborative health care system. Used as guidelines, these provide a framework for our philosophies and our approach to our work.

Used as guidelines, these provide a framework by which we determine what projects to commit our time.

Collaborative Health Care Principles

We Believe that access to affordable health care is a right that should be available to all Americans regardless of race, economic status, or life situation.

We Believe that neither the free market nor government social structures can individually or exclusively provide the changes necessary to develop a truly collaborative and more efficient health care system for individuals. Success will require a collaborative solution between the two.
We Believe the funding, reimbursement, and transactional methods to provide access to such rights will include a market-justified combination of private, government, and individual contributions to balance the demand for services with the resource availability and efficient operational execution.

We Believe Public Policy and Government should focus on improving the knowledge and information available through research to support the outcomes and results associated with care delivery. Our Public Policy and Government initiatives should support and guide the broader social changes that will be required to enhance the health improvement expectations of the population, assure care is available through the payment and delivery structure,  and assure the economic structure of the marketplace is balanced appropriately between the private, government, and consumer contributors.

We Believe a minimum health care benefit structure should be available to all Americans and delivered through a combination of private and government-sponsored stakeholder segments with funding provided through an economically justified collaboration between the private sector, government, and the individual consumer

We Believe that the intellectual capacity and technical capabilities exist to streamline the delivery of health care services and improve the economic efficiencies existing in the market but will require better alignment of economics, business models, and operational processes between the various stakeholders.

We Believe the reimbursement and pricing for the delivery of health care services should be aligned with traditional market economics (true cost) and the outcomes achieved with the services and made prominently available to individual consumers and the broader market.

We Believe that low short-term per unit price and reimbursement strategies, do not necessarily equate to better long-term outcomes or health improvement for an individual or benefit the health care delivery system as a whole.

We Believe care management decisions should be based on the outcomes and health improvement results associated with the services rendered, and not based solely on economic considerations.

We Believe those providing health care services should be responsible measuring, knowing and communicating their care outcomes and results utilizing consistent and understandable methodologies and approaches.

We Believe those providing health care services will be expected to continue to adjust their business models to improve efficiency through all aspects of the delivery experience, and to address the continual economic changes that will take place and opportunities that will develop in the marketplace.

We Believe the delivery of health care services should be a collaborative effort between disciplines to integrate the most appropriate methods and interventions that will maximize the outcome for the individual.

We Believe that in addition to the continued advances in medical technology, pharmacology, and medical procedures that will continue to occur, there are less-invasive and naturally based interventions that should be more prominently considered in care delivery that will maximize economic efficiency and the care outcome for an individual.

We Believe improving the health, wellness, and social behavior of the individual consumer throughout America is a key component to addressing today’s “condition-driven” health care cost crisis.

We Believe the definition of “health and wellness” extends beyond illness prevention and the management of chronic disease, and includes all aspects to improve and maintain the physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health of each individual.

We Believe the individual consumer must accept the responsibility and take the actions necessary to become more knowledgeable health care consumers and more active participants in the general operations of today’s health care system and in their lives.

We Believe the litigation costs associated with today’s health care system can be positively impacted by improving the collaboration and communication between the stakeholders and focusing predominantly on outcomes-related care management decision-making and improved communication.

We Believe that “fixing” our current health care crisis (increase in costs and limits in access) will require a change in the relationships between politics, legislatures, and the private market to utilize integrative thinking to creatively resolve the tension between various opposing views and creating new ideas containing elements of each, and superior to all.

We Believe that today’s health care system can be positively impacted by improving the relationships between all stakeholders, encouraging collaboration, and by aligning the fragmented strategies and expectations existing today with a common goal of providing a prevention-centered, cost-effective,  market-driven, and outcomes-oriented health care system for all Americans.