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Why Are We Reluctant to Embrace APPs?
Utilizing APPs to meet healthcare demand while realizing increased profitability and provider productivity seems to be a win-win proposition. So why are we reluctant to embrace the concept?
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Case Study: Shared Vision Positions Employed Medical Group for Success
Challenge The employed medical group of a highly successful hospital system in northeast Ohio requested assistance with catalyzing enhancement of its physician leadership and charting its future course to ensure success in the evolving healthcare environment. Specifically, the administration desired to promote collaborative group function, appropriately enhance the network infrastructure, improve practice operations, cultivate physician…
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From Operational Chaos to High-Performing: The Right Path for Your Physician Network
Over the past few years, most hospital and health system physician networks have been in an accelerated growth mode – some in an all-out buying spree, taking all comers. These networks are finding themselves mired in operational chaos and experiencing huge financial losses — their growth in size and scope outstripping the capabilities of the network’s management…
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Two Paths to Greater Practice Revenue and Productivity
Searching for ways to increase practice revenues and productivity? The 2017 MGMA DataDive Cost and Revenue Survey provides some helpful insight. The Survey indicated that practices with higher staffing-to-physician ratios and non-physician provider (NPP)-to-physician ratios realized greater net revenues and higher provider productivity. An article1 about the 2017 MGMA DataDive Cost and Revenue Survey highlights…
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Webinar: Assimilating Advanced Practice Providers in Your Practice
The evolving physician shortage points to the inevitable need to progressively incorporate APPs into the care delivery model. Why then do many of us have difficulty incorporating APPs into our care delivery model?
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Capitalizing on your Group Vision
One of our recent Physician Strategy News’s articles, “Creating a Shared Vision for Your Network”, extolled the virtues of developing a vision statement as a mechanism to galvanize your physician group around an aligned, common vision for the group’s future. We described our process for developing the vision statement and indicated that it could be…
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How Healthy is Your Employed Network?
Is a check-up in order? With reimbursement tightening and demands on limited practice resources increasing, it is critical that your employed network operates as efficiently as possible. Routine monitoring will keep you apprised and illuminate the steps you need to take to improve operations, stem losses, and keep localized issues from becoming systemic problems. On…
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Building the Network You Need for Success
The except below is from HSG’s whitepaper on the Physician Network Life Cycle, published (December 2016) at AHA Health Forum (Industry White Papers & Insights). Click here to download In HSG’s work with Employed Physician Networks, we frequently find the same set of core challenges during the evolution of Employed Physician Networks: • External pressures…
