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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 […]
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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 […]
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Growing Threat of Retail Medicine
Retail medicine outlets are exploding across the United States. And retail giants, such as Wal-Mart, are growing their capabilities in this area exponentially. While Wal-Mart had 80 outlets at the […]
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Growth Through Physicians
Hospitals around the country are focused on growth, for obvious reasons. With reimbursement increasing at 2-3 percent annually and costs for nurses and drugs increasing at 5-6 percent a year, […]
