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Primary Care Strategy: Will Your ACO Fail Because You Lack One?
Preparing for the Value-Based Care Organization (ACO) model is becoming a reality for hospitals and health systems across the country, and addressing how to react to the upcoming changes is […]
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Core Competencies for a Successful ACO
Understanding the ACO Movement The background information on the ACO movement is included the white paper. The paper addresses the factors driving the movement to ACOs, systemic challenges, current initiatives, […]
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Producing Value From Your Employed Physicians
Major investments and significant losses are too often the outcome when hospitals employ physicians. But market realities are driving such employment, as private groups struggle economically and hospitals face the […]
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Building Mutual Success Through Physician Alignment
Hospitals are focusing intensely on their physician alignment efforts, and our firm is helping many of them with that focus. In thinking about that challenge and the puzzle pieces that […]
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Maximizing Service Line Growth
Building and maintaining strong service lines is central to growth and can require significant investment. And, with today’s economic climate magnifying risk, strategically defining your investments within a service line […]
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Trends in Physician Alignment Strategies
Over the past couple of years, our firm has completed fifteen client engagements that focused on physician alignment strategy. These projects were each tailored to the unique needs of the […]
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Employer Health Clinics – Threat and Opportunity
There was a time when the jobsite clinic was a band-aid station, a place to assess work-related injuries and get people back to work. These clinics were just marginal players […]
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Getting Your Network Strategically Focused
Around the country, hospitals are assembling networks of physicians. Driven by the economics of medical practice, many physicians are seeking partnerships with hospitals because they are perceived to be relatively […]
