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Building Network Value: Are You Asking The Right Questions?
One of the first challenges in wringing value from your employed physician group is to focus your discussions. In developing strategies for these groups, we’ve found paying attention to the […]
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Webinar: Five Tactics to Juggle Fee-for-Service and Fee-for-Value
CEOs and other executives consistently ask us three questions: How do we time the transition from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-value world, and ensure financial stability through that transition? How […]
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Webinar: Developing Your Clinical Integration Strategy
With healthcare reform and associated payment reforms underway, hospital and health system executives are faced with the challenge of developing a strategy to address the fundamental, long-term shift to bundled […]
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Tipping Point for Clinical Integration
Many “experts” are recommending a focus on clinical integration, and we are no different. Much of our work relates to leveraging the expertise of employed physicians concerning care processes, and […]
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Under the Thumb of a Competitive Multi-Specialty Group?
Recently, three clients called with concerns about a local multi-specialty practice that represented a major strategic challenge. Clients one and two were in competitive markets, and were being asked to […]
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Service Line Strategy and Physician Employment
Physician employment has revitalized hospital interest in service line development. The alignment of incentives created by employment has created new possibilities and has improved the ability of hospitals to respond […]
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ACOs: The Risk of Late Entry
Hospitals that decide to delay entry into Value-Based Care Organization (ACO) market take a great short-term risk: a competitor may develop relationships with many of the freestanding primary care physicians […]
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Driving Clinical Integration
Strategic planning efforts in hospitals are increasingly concerned with clinical integration. But the topic is so broad, it is difficult for many to get started. We have found it useful […]