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M. Davis Creech

M. Davis Creech

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M. Davis Creech, Director, has over fifteen years of experience in physician network management, hospital/physician relations, and consulting. He is knowledgeable and skilled in strategy-focused manpower planning; physician recruitment and retention strategies; physician employment, education and development; performance improvement; and marketing strategies for physician practices.

He holds Master’s Degrees in both Hospital and Health Services Administration and Business Administration from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Economics and Management from Centre College, Danville, Ky.

Thought Leadership from M. Davis Creech
Webinar: Mitigating Physician Burnout

Physician burnout is rampant and affects up to 50% of practicing physicians. Undertaking primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive efforts can mitigate burnout evolution and the degree of impact on both physicians and the organization.

Webinar: 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Implications for Physician Practices

The 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule promulgated several changes that benefit Physician Practices and Employed Physician Networks.

Webinar: Employed Physician Networks – A Strategic Guide to Building Strategic Advantage, Value, and Financial Sustainability

Building a great employed physician network is the best chance most executives have to improve the health in their community. In this webinar we will review HSG’s breakthrough book Employed Physician Networks: A Guide for Building Strategic Advantage, Value and Financial Sustainability. The book, published by ACHE, provides practical advice on how to accelerate the [...]

Webinar: Assessing and Reducing Losses in Employed Physician Networks

Most health systems and hospitals are struggling to build or maintain employed networks which are financially sustainable. In this webinar, HSG reviews its approach to assessing network performance, defining opportunities for improvement, building focused action plans to attack the problem areas, and implementing those plans to ensure the benefits are achieved. This webinar will be [...]

Management and Infrastructure Development

In recent years, the number of physicians employed by hospitals has exploded, and the size of those employed networks have seen equal amounts of growth. Often, an employed network may have doubled or tripled in size from 30 providers to 100+ providers. In many cases, the management and executive talent required to lead these multimillion [...]

Webinar: How to Build The Right Management Infrastructure for Your Physician Network

The 2017 MGMA DataDive Cost and Revenue Report indicates an economic advantage for effectively incorporating non-physician providers (NPPs) into the care delivery model.  The evolving physician shortage points to the inevitable need to progressively incorporate NPPs into the care delivery model.  Patients are progressively receptive to NPP care.  Why then do many of us have [...]

St. Claire Medical Group (SCMG) Shared Vision Helps Lower Chronic Opioid Use

Summary More than 1,000 patients at SCMG have discontinued chronic opioid use, which represents more than 30% of identified patients using ongoing prescriptions. Challenge Located in eastern Kentucky, SCMG’s population is situated in the heart of one of the largest regions of opioid addiction and overdose – and had scarce resources available to address the [...]

Aultman Medical Group (AMG) Revenue Cycle Redesign Case Study

Summary Aultman Medical Group is a not-for-profit healthcare system that employs 140 providers across 19 specialties with locations that span six counties in Canton, Ohio.  Challenge Aultman Medical Group sought to optimize its revenue cycle operations to help address internal structural factors impacting the organization financially. The leadership also was determined to standardize its processes [...]

Physician Network Management: Insights from an Interim Executive

Background Senior leadership of a hospital system was growing increasingly concerned over mounting losses and a general lack of operational efficiency in the employed physician network. It was apparent to them that the management infrastructure and talent had not kept pace with the needs of the rapidly growing network. The hospital requested assistance from HSG [...]

6 Reasons for Upgrading Your Employed Physician Network Leadership

Employed physician networks have become an integral part of the overall strategy for hospitals and health systems. Whether your network consists of 40 or 240 providers, having the right executive leadership at the helm is critical. And the operational and financial expertise required to effectively manage these multimillion dollar entities has grown with the network’s [...]

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