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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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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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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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Strategic Considerations in Physician Acquisition
Hospitals are acquiring physician practices at a brisk pace. Driven by the economics of medical practices, the shortage of physicians in some specialties, and a variety of other issues, the […]
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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 […]
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Ten Questions for Building a Physician Strategy
Few relationships are more central to the success of the hospital than the one between the organization and physicians. And, this relationship only grows in importance as physicians increasingly compete […]
