Intermountain Health is stepping back from a clinically integrated network it’s been running jointly with UCHealth since 2023, the system told Colorado’s Department of Labor in a regulatory notice describing its plans.
The two nonprofits had launched Trinsic in 2023 by combining their separately run care networks, and at the time described their collaboration as a concrete push to accelerate value-based care.
Trinsic’s operations and ownership were set up as a joint venture, allowing better patient coordination and information sharing between physicians, clinics and hospitals, the organizations told Fierce Healthcare in statements confirming the plans. Trinsic providers—more than 1,000 primary care clinicians and 17 hospitals—cared for more than 400,000 in 2024, and the network contracted with commercial plans or Medicare Advantage plans from Anthem BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Humana and Select Health, according to Trinsic’s website.
Intermountain, however, will be ending its role owning and operating Trinsic in early December and ending its employment of 117 people within the operating unit, the system told the state in an Oct. 2 notice. Specifically, Intermountain’s Trinsic operating unit will close on Dec. 4, UCHealth will continue operations after Dec. 7 and the first employees will formally depart Intermountain on Dec. 9, the letter reads.
In the letter, and in statements Intermountain and UCHealth gave to Fierce Healthcare confirming those plans, the systems said that most “if not all” of the affected employees are expected to take on roles at UCHealth after the transition. Those switchovers are “subject to completion of UCHealth’s standard employment processes,” Intermountain said, with UCHealth adding that “some may choose to stay at Intermountain in different roles.”
Many of the affected roles are clinical and non-clinical care coordinators as well as nurse care managers, according to the notice. Other roles involve IT, population health or administrative responsibilities. All have been notified of their upcoming separations.
“Intermountain Health and UCHealth officials continue to work together to support caregivers throughout the transition and to ensure continuity of operations and care,” Intermountain told Fierce Healthcare.
Neither company’s statements on the transition addressed why Intermountain is reducing its participation in Trinsic, or any terms involving the changeover to full ownership by UCHealth.
UCHealth is Colorado’s largest health system, with 16 hospitals plus four out-of-state affiliates, over 36,000 employees and $8.7 billion in revenue in its 2025 fiscal year.
Intermountain Health, based in Utah, has a six-state footprint of about three dozen hospitals and reported $18.5 billion of total operating revenue last year. Within Colorado, the system shared plans this summer to bring three Denver-area hospitals and their affiliated sites into a new joint venture to be majority-owned and operated by AdventHealth.