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Case Study: Strategic Planning for a Rapidly-Growing Employed Physician Group
Background The number of physicians employed by a 300+ bed hospital in the Midwest had grown from 30 to 120 over a three-year period. While this growth was driven by […]
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Case Study: Defining the Tolerance for Subsidies by Specialty within an Employed Physician Group
Background Our client is a community hospital in the Midwest that operates a PHO consisting of 50+ physicians (largely employed, but some independents) across a number of specialties. With mounting losses […]
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Case Study: Compensation Planning for a Tertiary Hospital’s Employed Physician Group with Diverse Specialties
Background Our client is a 1000+ bed tertiary hospital on the Atlantic Seaboard, which features a children’s hospital, a level one trauma center, and one of the largest transplant centers […]
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Case Study: Primary Care Alignment in a Community Hospital Setting
Background Our client, a two-hospital system in the Southeast region, lacked a consistent physician alignment strategy, particularly for primary care. As a result: Referrals from on-staff physicians were lost to […]
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Case Study: Cardiology Co-Management Agreement
Background Our client was a two-hospital system in the Mid-Atlantic region that was experiencing inefficiencies in their cath lab. The inefficiencies resulted in high costs-per-case, substandard outcomes and lost market […]
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Case Study: Performing a Practice Assessment
Background Over a three-week period, HSG performed a complete audit of an employed physician network consisting of over 120 providers, 90 of whom were physicians. It was operating at an […]
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Case Study: Physician Employment Entity and Infrastructure
Background We’ve had more than a few hospital clients who never made a formal decision to start hiring physicians, but nonetheless found themselves with a goodly number and mix of […]
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Case Study: Developing a Physician Recruitment Plan at the Hospital System Level
Background A five-hospital system in Northern Indiana located just outside the Chicago metropolitan area required a shared recruitment plan to address the need for multiple select specialties. Critical to creating […]