Problems We Solve

Controlling patient outcomes and costs is difficult. Post-acute healthcare represents one of the fastest-growing areas of the healthcare system with the highest variation in patient outcomes and costs. ICS’ risk-sharing partnership approach helps providers to better manage the following:

• Prevention of costly ED visits and hospitalizations
• Coordination with primary care physician services
• Level of care determinations
• SNF length of stay
• Factors that reduce readmissions
• Developing partnerships with high-quality skilled nursing and home health providers
• Transitioning and maintaining patients in communities where they reside and call home
• Addressing social determinants and patient support

Driving Our Overall Method and Approach

We ensure the following:

• Patients avoid hospitalizations and ED visits by actively managing chronic conditions and comorbidities
• Coordination with patients’ primary care and specialist physicians to optimally manage clinical and social needs
• Patients are treated in the most appropriate post-acute setting upon hospital discharge
• Patients are referred to the highest quality providers to meet their needs
• Patients stay for the right amount of time, receiving the right amount of services
• Everyone involved in the patient’s care has the right information and incentives to achieve optimal outcomes
• Patients remain safely at home as much as possible