Travis Ansel, Managing Partner, focuses on helping healthcare organizations with Organizational-Level Strategic Planning, Physician Alignment Strategy, Employed Physician Network Strategy and Value-Based Care Strategy. In his 10+ years in management consulting, Travis has worked with clients ranging in size from multi-hospital tertiary systems to critical access hospitals. His focus is on creating action-oriented plans to address the core strategic issues his clients face. In addition to consulting, Travis is a frequent contributor to a number of national healthcare publications and speaks at national and state-level healthcare conferences.
Travis holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee and dual Bachelor’s of Science Degrees in Finance and Business Management from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Travis is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Thought Leadership
Three Dimensions of Physician Alignment
Alignment with physicians is the holy grail of hospital operations. How wonderful it would be if everyone pulled in the same direction, working to improve quality, manage utilization, and improve profitability…with some of the profits reinvested in the technology and staff needed to improve care and some used to reward practitioners for their efforts. While […]
Cutting Losses – HSG Featured in MGMA’s Connection Magazine
HSG’s David Miller and Travis Ansel were published in a feature article in the January 2020 issue of MGMA Connection Magazine.
Service Line Strategy In 2020
Service Line Strategy in today’s environment is incredibly complicated, however, HSG has the tools to ensure service line success.
Improving Manpower Planning with Patient-Focused Claims Data Analytics
Improving manpower planning with analytics requires consideration of patient utlization, claims data analytics does this most effectively.
Reducing Employed Physician Network Losses and Creating Financial Sustainability
Many hospitals are increasingly challenged by the financial performance of their employed physician networks. As these networks grow, the concern about financial performance moves to the forefront, with the losses becoming an increasingly visible drag on the system’s overall profitability. This, in turn, puts pressure on health system and physician network leadership to, at a […]
A Comprehensive Strategy for Physician Network Referral Management
For hospitals with large employed physician networks, we commonly see referral management/patient referral capture as an issue. Out-of-network referrals lead to decreased productivity, declining market share and lost practice and hospital downstream revenue. Drivers of Referral Leakage Poor performance in referral capture is driven by one of two issues: 1) Providers Directly-Referring Out. This most […]