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Leveraging Your Primary Care Investment in the Managed Care Marketplace
Primary care networks can cost millions of dollars to develop, but many hospitals aren’t utilizing them to their fullest advantage. One common example of untapped potential: managed care. What steps […]
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Is Consolidation Right for Your Hospital?
Continual reimbursement cuts and the uncertainty of reform have many hospitals and physician groups seeking merger opportunities. There’s a lot of discussion about hospitals being unable to survive without X […]
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What Your Doctors Need to Know About: Healthcare Reform
To a great degree, your hospital’s success under the Affordable Care Act will depend on your medical staff’s ability to respond to change and embrace a collaborative approach to patient […]
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Creating A Rational Employed Network
No hospital CEO ever met a doctor he didn’t want. That may be an exaggeration, but we see many hospitals focused on growing their networks with little regard for the […]
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Webinar: Affiliation: The Elephant in the Board Room
Merger mania is dominating hospital news these days. What’s driving the headlines is the Affordable Care Act. Clients, large and small, are asking themselves if they have the financial strength, […]
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Three Strategic Planning Missteps
The approach hospitals take to strategic planning is often fraught with problems. And many of these problems relate to physicians. In this article we will focus on three of those […]
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Building a Physician Employment Strategy
Hospitals are increasingly confronted by the challenge of employing physicians. To meet this challenge, hospitals bring a high motivation for success but very little practical experience. In this article, we’ll […]
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Mergers and Physician Alignment
Our consultants see an interesting dichotomy with clients: they believe, almost uniformly, that closer alignment with physicians is crucial to future success, but when evaluating merger partners or acquisition targets, […]
