Practice-led care
Primary care relationships stay central while coordinated support expands the practice's clinical reach.
Physician-led value-based care · Built around the CMS LEAD Model
Clinical excellence, within reach.
Sphere Health Partners is a physician-led value-based care organization that brings clinical and operational support around the people and practices responsible for care. We extend access, strengthen coordination, and turn accountable care into daily clinical practice.
Clinical excellence
Evidence-based, physician-led care
Access
In practice, at home, and across care settings
Prevention
Proactive care before needs become crises
Accountability
Quality, experience, and total cost of care
The Sphere Health Partners model
Clinical strength around every patient and practice.
Sphere brings clinical teams, practice support, and accountable operating infrastructure around existing care relationships. The model keeps practices central while connecting prevention, chronic care, specialty care, transitions, and more intensive support into one coordinated system.
Integrated clinical teams
Physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, specialists, and community partners coordinate around a shared care plan.
Prevention and chronic care
Evidence-based prevention and longitudinal care help people stay healthier and address risk before it becomes a crisis.
Complex and high-needs care
More intensive coordination supports people living with frailty, mobility limitations, ESRD, or serious chronic illness.
Access across settings
When clinically appropriate and available, support extends from the practice into the home, hospital, post-acute setting, virtual visit, and community.
Closed-loop coordination
Sphere's closed-loop workflow routes each transition, referral, and acute event back to the practice with a clear update instead of creating another disconnected queue.
Who we serve
Different needs. One Sphere standard.
The clinical standard stays constant. Sphere adapts the support, information, and operating relationship to the people and organizations involved.
For providers
Lead the care. Keep the relationship.
Add clinical and administrative capacity around your practice while preserving PCP control and a practice-selected scope.
Provider pathway For payers & partnersInfrastructure for quality and accountability.
Align clinical operations, data, access, and governance around the needs of Original Medicare populations and public partners.
Partner pathway For patients & familiesMore coordinated care. Your choices stay yours.
Understand how accountable care can make prevention, follow-up, and support easier to reach without replacing Original Medicare.
Patient pathway
Access across settings
Care should meet people where they are.
Access is part of the clinical plan, not a separate service line. The clinical plan combines practice-based, home-based, virtual, transitional, specialty, and community support around each person's needs.
- Practice-based care
- Keep the trusted primary care relationship at the center.
- Home-based care
- Extend appropriate care to people whose needs or mobility make access difficult.
- Transitions
- Reconnect acute and post-acute events to the longitudinal care plan.
- Language and community
- Account for communication, caregiver, and social needs that affect care.
Clinical excellence
The standard is better health, not more activity.
Sphere centers evidence-based prevention, stronger continuity, timely follow-through, more stable days at home, and a care experience patients and clinicians can trust.
Evidence-based prevention
Make prevention and chronic-condition management part of the longitudinal plan rather than a disconnected checklist.
Timely clinical follow-through
Turn acute events, referrals, medication changes, and care gaps into owned actions with a clear route back to the practice.
Meaningful quality signals
Organize around patient experience, avoidable acute use, days at home, chronic-condition control, and sustained improvement.
The CMS LEAD Model
A long-term framework for broader accountable care.
Beginning January 1, 2027, LEAD is CMS's voluntary, 10-year accountable care model for eligible Original Medicare beneficiaries. Its Aged and Disabled, ESRD, and High Needs categories support a broad range of needs, with senior care as one pathway rather than Sphere's defining identity.
Preventive and primary care
Wellness, screening, chronic-condition management, and longitudinal relationships.
Complex and high-needs care
More coordinated support for serious illness, frailty, mobility limits, disability, and ESRD.
Home-based and senior care
One access pathway for people who benefit from appropriate care in the home and community.
Transitions and specialty care
Closed-loop coordination across hospitals, post-acute care, specialists, and the primary practice.
Model facts reflect current CMS materials. Sphere Health Partners does not imply CMS selection, approval, participation, or endorsement. Read the CMS LEAD overview.
Clinical and operating infrastructure
Infrastructure that helps teams act.
Sphere EHR and Sphere OS provide the clinical and operating layer for care delivery, population health, quality work, coordination, and standards-based exchange.
Longitudinal context
Authorized clinical, claims, pharmacy, and social context comes together in one care view.
Actionable work
Risk, care gaps, transitions, and referrals become prioritized team workflows.
Standards-based exchange
Portable information supports coordination across practices, partners, and care settings.
Trust and auditability
Privacy, role-based access, traceable actions, and responsible data use are built into the operating layer.
Quality, choice, and trust
Accountability by design.
The operating model makes responsibility clearer for every clinician, partner, patient, and family without adding another layer of friction.
- Physician leadership Clinical standards, quality review, and escalation remain grounded in medical judgment.
- Practice control Support is practice-selected, avoids duplicate services, and preserves the patient relationship.
- Patient choice Original Medicare benefits and freedom to use Medicare-enrolled providers remain intact.
- Closed-loop accountability Actions, handoffs, and results return to the clinicians responsible for the care plan.