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Developing a PHO: 6 Key Considerations
Payment and insurance reform have driven hospital/physician alignment over the past few years. With hospitals and physicians increasingly being held accountable for each other’s actions, the need for tighter integration […]
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Setting Up a Physician Advisory Council
As essential components of employed physician networks, Physician Advisory Councils enhance organizational performance by promoting: Active physician involvement, Effective two-way communication, and Physician leadership development for the network. Council Composition […]
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Defining a Comprehensive and Proactive Physician Strategy
Hospitals and health systems frequently express the same frustrations when discussing their physician strategies: These dynamics create a physician strategy that is reactive and narrow. The upshot: physician deals that […]
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Has Your Physician Network Outgrown Your Leadership?
As private practitioners, physicians have a firm grasp on practice operations. However, once employed, many physicians abdicate this responsibility and expect the network management team to do it all. Having […]
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Critical Considerations for Merging Physician Networks
This HSG article covers mistakes hospitals often make when merging physician networks and lays out five areas that merit scrutiny. The recent spate of hospital affiliations and mergers/acquisitions combined with […]
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Extend the Power of Your Physician Network with On-Site Employer Clinics
Nationally, many large employers have opened onsite employee clinics offering everything from acute primary and urgent care to biometrics screenings and life-style risk education for workers with chronic diseases. Onsite […]
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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 […]
