Texas Children’s Care Network

Our Vision

To provide seamless, patient-centered healthcare for women and children through integrated clinical care, innovative research, and community engagement. We aim to empower every woman and child to achieve their fullest potential by fostering strong community partnerships and delivering compassionate, cutting-edge healthcare solutions.

What is a Clinically Integrated Network?

Texas Children’s Care Network (TCCN) coordinates patient care across the healthcare ecosystem. Physician-led and managed, TCCN provides members with tools to establish and meet the highest quality standards. It empowers each provider to collaborate within the network, focused on providing the improved outcomes to patients and families, while remaining independent.

What Does Texas Children’s CIN Program Offer Physicians?

Texas Children’s TCCN Program provides members with a formal collaboration among a diverse group of healthcare providers, including hospitals, physicians, advance practice providers, specialists and other healthcare organizations. The primary goal of a TCCN is to enhance patient care by improving coordination, quality and efficiency while reducing unnecessary costs.

By creating processes that improve coordination and reduce costs, the Texas Children’s Care Network seeks to streamline patient care across settings and disciplines, enhancing integration, quality and safety in patient care, especially for patients with complex and chronic conditions. The goal is to improve the overall patient and provider experience, improve outcomes and reduce the cost of care, while allowing each practice to remain and operate independent.

List of CIN benefits

• Physician-led Board​
• Performance Improvement & Care Coordination Management
• Streamlined referral process
• Information Technology Integration​
• Value-Based Reimbursement Models​
• Cost Efficiency and Bargaining Power

Streamlined Referral Process

Contracting

TCCN providers may choose to participate jointly in contracts with payers and employers that are based on quality performance and outcomes of the entire group. The Texas Children’s Care Network allows Texas Children’s to negotiate contracts with health plans and employers that return enhanced value to each practice — both in terms of quality-adjusted and pay-for-performance incentives, and fee-for-service contracts.

Clinically Integrated Value-Added Benefits for Participating Physicians

Texas Children’s Care Network participating members may receive the following value-added membership benefits: 

• Physician profile page on the Texas Children’s website Find a Doctor directory featuring specialty, professional headshot, biography and practice location information. This section of the website receives more than 300,000 pageviews each month.
  • Practice may opt to have designation of TCCN added to profile
• Online scheduling through this physician profile page where appropriate or available by physician
• Access to the following:
  • Preferred Pricing through Group Purchasing Organization for Vaccine and Supply Chain
  • Payer contracts and value-based programs
  • Training and education
  • EMR pricing with enhanced support
• Streamlined referral process for support of TCCN patients
• Enhanced reimbursement for care management and value-based delivery
• Support to achieve NCQA accreditation if desired

Texas Children’s Objectives

• Partner with practices who desire to remain independent by delivering value added services.
• Demonstrate intent to the community to create a long lasting and strong partnership​
• Strengthen and enhance the referral process, to improve the coordinated quality of care in the community​