- Federal Rural Healthcare Transformation Program (Public Law 119-21-7/4/2025) dovetails perfectly with our Syncoro Health mission. Our team can assist States with the development of this program from application process to a successful and sustainable year over year appropriation through fiscal year 2030.
- States have a massive opportunity for significant cost savings by eliminating avoidable Medicaid hospitalizations, increasing in revenue generation, stabilizing the healthcare workforce, and integrating technology through the implementation and strategic placement of outreach clinic networks.
- Rusty Holman, MD will be joining Syncoro Health as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Holman is the former Chief Medical Officer for LifePoint Health, a Nashville-based health system with 90 hospitals in 30 states representing rural and non-urban communities. He brings a proven track record in private-public partnerships, quality, safety and operational excellence at scale.
The Michigan Case Study: Impact of Syncoro Health on statewide rural Healthcare
Client Background
- The geography of Michigan is 95% rural and contains 20% of the population. Rural migration has been increasing since 2020.
- Like many states, Michigan faces a rural healthcare crisis fueled by rising operational costs, poor patient access, workforce shortages and declining reimbursement.
The Challenge
- Chronic disease is a hardship on patients, families, and health providers especially in rural areas.
- Specialty services necessary for many chronic disease patients are poorly distributed in rural areas, forcing patients to forego preventive care.
- Avoidable, high-cost hospitalizations and emergency department visits significantly add to the financial burden on patients, health providers and state/federal insurance programs.
The Goal
- Improve healthcare access, satisfaction and outcomes for rural patients with chronic disease.
- Increase revenue and create attractive practices for healthcare providers in rural settings.
- Decrease costs by reducing avoidable hospitalizations and emergency visits.
- Accomplish the above without adding significant infrastructure or recurring costs.
Syncoro Health Approach
- Assessment of demographics, disease prevalence, physician referral data and analysis of clinical differentiators.
- Implementation of Outreach Clinic Network sites utilizing shared space; training staff in the new care delivery model; integration of digital connectivity and electronic health record.
- In-person engagement of community and specialty physicians to endorse and lead the Cooperative Care Product.
- Advanced practice provider integration enables service expansion.
- This care delivery innovation was validated by the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst in 2024.
Outcomes
- 24 new tertiary service lines deployed across six rural Michigan locations.
- Creation of a replicable, scalable collaboration among 15 hospitals and health systems spanning numerous distinct organizations, ensuring parity across participating entities.
- 67% reduction of hospitalizations and ER visits within 2 years.
- Financial stabilization: “Ever since this clinic launched, our physician workforce has stabilized, which has helped our bottom line.” - Rural Hospital Leader.
- Increased revenue for tertiary healthcare organization: $18.6M year one post-implementation
Call to Action
- Syncoro Health orchestrates expansion of clinical services to reduce costs, enhance revenue and improve outcomes, benefitting states, healthcare organizations, and most importantly, patients.
- The Syncoro Cooperative Care Product specifically aligns state-sponsored efforts to optimize the Rural Health Transformation Program grants and address Medicaid funding cuts.
- We welcome the opportunity for our proven model to be part of your State's RHTP application, implementation and rural health strategy.