Neal D. Barker joined HSG in 2001 and became a partner in 2015. He came to the firm with several years of managed care and physician practice experience. Neal served as a provider relations representative and physician credential coordinator for a 2,000-member Independent Practice Association and fulfilled various roles within primary care and dental practices. Today, he provides clients with expertise and leadership in: physician practice mergers and consolidations; physician practice operational improvement; physician network development; physician employment and practice acquisition; physician compensation (including independent and employed, medical directorships, and call pay); physician-hospital alignment strategies (including professional service and co-management arrangements) and strategic planning for both hospitals and physician groups.
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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: 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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Use These Five Strategies to Align with Independent Physicians
To many hospital CEOs, there are days when it seems as though every physician on the medical staff wants to be employed. In reality, that’s not true — quite a number of physicians […]
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Improving Hospital-Based Physician Contracts
Due to the nature of services hospital-based physicians provide, no group is more logical or simple to truly “align” with. Their quality is your quality. Their mistakes are your mistakes. […]
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Webinar: Improve Quality and Enhance Efficiency with Co-Management Agreements
Healthcare reform’s focus on patient outcomes is piquing renewed interest in co-management agreements. Many hospitals have relied on co-management to build successful service lines, because they enhance clinical expertise, give […]
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Push Coordinated Cancer Care through Co-Management
One of health reform’s goals is to change the way health care is delivered in America. Rather than treating patients in silos, health reform initiatives encourage providers to work together. Cancer care is an […]
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