Case Study: Hutchinson Clinic achieves improved quality metrics and value-based care success with NextGen Healthcare's Population Health

How a Midwestern Clinic Will Thrive Under Value-Based Care

Hutchinson Clinic is a rural, multi‑specialty health system in South Central Kansas serving patients through 100+ clinicians, 600 staff, and 14 outreach clinics, managing about 85,000 charts. The clinic relied on paper charts and spreadsheets to track quality measures, which masked gaps in care (mammography and colonoscopy rates near 30%) and threatened its ability to succeed under emerging value‑based payment models.

To address this, Hutchinson implemented EHR point‑of‑care reminders and then adopted NextGen Population Health (an EHR‑agnostic solution) to track, measure, and close care gaps. The platform uncovered performance shortfalls, enabled targeted outreach at the visit level, improved screening rates and quality metrics, increased provider satisfaction, helped the clinic join more payer quality programs, and delivered a clear return on investment while positioning the practice for long‑term financial viability under value‑based care.

Hutchinson Clinic

Verlin Janzen

Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians Family Physician, Medical Director, and Population Health Director