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Driving Profitable Growth Through Physician Alignment
For hospitals and health systems around the country, the last few years have been characterized by increased financial pressures that have resulted in reduced top-line revenue and operating margins. These […]
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Service Area Challenges in Physician Manpower Planning
The growth in physician employment is creating some new challenges when defining service areas for physician manpower planning. Frequently, initial discussion with clients regarding the service area reveals the misconception […]
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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 […]
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Building Medical Staff Support for Your Recruitment Plan
When hospitals plan the recruitment of new physicians into their community, whether into private practice or employment, resistance from the established physicians is not uncommon. Such resistance can derail one […]
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Your Most Profitable Payers
Many hospitals we work with do not have a strategy to deal with their most profitable payers: employers. These employers purchase insurance or TPA services from major insurers and the […]
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Integrating with Physicians in a “Fee-for-Value” Environment
If we accept the premise that “fee-for-value” will be the new reimbursement model for public and private payers, then we must also accept the fact that, in order to be […]
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Final ACO Rules: Better But Not Good Enough?
Now that the final regulations regarding Medicare Value-Based Care organizations have been published, will interest levels return to pre-March levels? Before addressing that question, let’s review the ACO regulations and […]
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Clinical Integration as an Alternative to Employment
Hospitals lose $150,000 to $250,000 per year over the first 3 years of employing a physician according the May 12, 2011 NEJM article “Hospitals’ Race to Employ Physicians – The […]
