Business and consulting services provided to clinically integrated networks of health care providers to promote enhanced quality and better value to individuals, employers and insurers, better health for populations, and containment of health care costs through the negotiation and execution of contracts with health care payors, insurance providers and medical products and services providers, business and consulting services provided to clinically integrated networks of health care providers, namely, monitoring health care utilization metrics by collecting health care utilization metrics, reviewing the collected utilization metrics, and providing cost analysis of utilization of health care services delivered by network providers based on the collected utilization metrics, protocol consulting services in establishing best practices based on evidence-based monitoring and review of medical services delivered by health care providers in the network and in evaluation and reporting of medical delivery quality metrics with providers in the network, and consulting for developing enhanced efficiencies in the delivery of health care services by network providers for reducing costs