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While quality and access will always be top priorities for Sutter Health, we also continue to implement more efficient ways to deliver our services, conserve our limited resources and spend wisely. Sutter Health’s integrated approach has increased the quality of care provided by our physicians and hospitals and will continue to help make our services more affordable. Although some people measure the cost of care solely in terms of a single specific service, we believe it’s important to consider a patient’s total cost of care.

With health insurance premiums continuing to rise, economists, the news media and others are sharing wide-ranging points of view about factors contributing to the overall cost of care. At Sutter Health, we strive to provide patients with the safest, highest quality and most accessible care—while doing our part to make sure our services are affordable. In other words, we commit to providing great value—as opposed to being the least expensive provider of any particular service. Of course we also know high-value organizations must offer services at a fair price.

Sutter Health is a leading provider of heart care services in Northern California. Our network of doctors and not-for-profit hospitals serves more than 100 Northern California communities. We provide expert diagnosis and treatment for heart attacks, congenital cardiac defects, congestive heart failure, valve conditions, heart arrhythmias, circulation problems, and heart transplants.

Some health insurance executives claim and some news media have recently reported that large provider systems like Sutter Health make health care more expensive by demanding higher-than-average reimbursement from insurers. What is Sutter Health’s perspective Sutter Health believes its reimbursements from insurers are fair, and reflect our commitments and obligations to the communities we serve. Large insurance companies contract with us for services of their own free will.

“Sutter Health is an innovative health care organization, focused on providing first-rate care to its patients, and that’s evidenced by its extensive HIE selection process,” said James Date, senior vice president, Sales, Orion Health. “More and more organizations are realizing the critical need for technology that facilitates the sharing of patient information. They want to meet regulatory requirements, and more importantly, they want to share information quickly and securely—often across multiple facilities.

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