Just as Aspen trees share a common root structure forming a colony of trees, Aspen Physician Network wants to bring that culture to healthcare. The Aspen Physician Network mission is to create a virtual independent specialty physician network excelling in population health management and Value-Based care delivery. This Site/App helps keep our providers connected.

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Aspen Physician Network, PLLC ("Aspen”) exists to create an integrated panel of independent specialty physician groups to promote an environment of cooperation among providers and delivering quality care to the community. The goal is to assemble a network of quality physicians and outpatient facilities that could meet most of the specialty-related health care needs of the patient population. There is an additional focus on trying to reduce the cost of health care services through the collaboration of care, providers and facilities.

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Our focus is on improving quality and lowering costs through clinical integration processes, while increasing access for patients to a high quality integrated specialty physician network. Aspen looks to aggregate physician EMR clinical and administrative data to evaluate clinical and cost performance of the physician groups relative to industry benchmarks.

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We believe there is a need for an organization of specialty physicians that are willing to focus on quality and deliver the care needed in the appropriate care setting. Through clinical integration, independent specialty physician groups would assure that the right care is being delivered in the correct setting at the right time, based on the need and acuity of the patient. The best opportunity to reduce the cost of health care is for specialty physician groups to work together.

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Healthcare Today:

In the current healthcare community there are many self-insured employers looking for alternatives and health systems and physician organizations providing care through accountable care organizations or shared savings programs. Many of the foregoing place the responsibility for the care at a health system level or with primary care physicians. The weakness of this approach is that a significant portion of the health care costs are directed by specialty physicians. The specialty physicians are typically involved in performing the procedures, selecting the location for performing the procedures, selecting the medications for health issues, and selecting the location or type of care for ongoing care needs. As much as 80% of the healthcare spend is influenced by a specialist, but they are frequently excluded from the early operational designs of these organizations.

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Aspen is available to contract with health plans, Accountable Care Organizations ACOs), Clinical Integrated Networks (CINs), emerging Alternative Payment Models (APMs), employer groups, or health systems when the physician panel is needed. We want to be the go-to network when specialty care is needed for patients. We hope that the referral decision will become easy because providers have comfort in knowing that the Aspen physician will do what is right for the patient in the best setting available.