EHN 2022AnnualReport 9DIGITAL - Flipbook - Page 8
2022 At-a-glance
Thriving despite the challenges
This past year has been one of growth for Eastside
Health Network (EHN). Our Premera Health Connect
contract grew past 10,000 lives. 2022 marked
the first year of serving members in our Public
Employees Benefits Board and School Employees
Benefits Board contracts, which added 5,000 lives to
our network. We also reconnected with Regence on
a Medicare Advantage plan after a brief hiatus.
We began rigorous investigation into Medicare
Shared Savings Plan as a future avenue and are
continuing to slate that as a future pathway for
EHN. We renewed our contracts with both Cigna
and Aetna and pushed the payors to recognize our
marked differentiated performance level in our
contract, and they did.
Hospitals and clinics are emerging from the
pandemic. One of the challenges they continue to
face is access. Patients are waiting longer for care
than they did before the pandemic. Our hospital
and clinic partners are actively working on ways
to increase access. Addressing access will continue
to be a focus in 2023.
Staff and clinicians within EHN and within our larger
network are addressing these challenges in truly
innovative ways. EvergreenHealth has developed
new processes for managing Annual Wellness Visits,
which you can read more about on page 10.
EHN’s own Senior Population Health Data Analyst
Miranda Tomuro developed new code to automate
Pre-Visit Planning, which saved the equivalent time
of 1 FTE.
EHN built relationships with new partners, including
American Senior Resources (ASR). ASR helps us
develop and execute outreach for our Medicare
Advantage work. They have expanded our work
from a focus on direct mail to include staging
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representatives in network hospitals and hosting
Medicare 101 workshops. For 2023, we will further
expand our work with them to involve Medicare
patients in the turning 65 category.
Clinically Integrated Network Resource Group
“CINRG” (pronounced synergy) was founded by EHN
in 2021, but really took off in 2022. Leaders from
the groups of seven Clinically Integrated Networks
meet virtually four times per year to exchange
ideas about effective approaches to success in
value-based care, and to support one another.
Each quarter we select a topic and collaborate
on working towards a shared knowledge and
best practice. Topics have included things like
Care Management, organizational structure, and
specialty care pharmacy. Additionally, organizations
often contact one another informally outside of
the scheduled meetings to discuss more granular
topics. In the year to come, we hope to find a
sponsor who might help defray costs for us to meet
in person and allow for deeper connection and
enhanced learnings.
EASTSIDE HEALTH NETWORK