Understanding the best practices in managing an employed network is critical to the health system’s success. HSG’s insights, developed in fifteen years of consulting with hospital-employed physician
4 Key Moves to Structure Win-Win Physician Deals
In HSG's extensive experience with brokering deals between hospitals and physicians, we’ve identified four key moves that are critical for success. 1: Communicate Expectations and Desires Early in
Aligned Compensation: Excerpts from “67 Tips for Developing a High-Performing Physician Network”
Physician compensation is the largest cost in the practice. It must be used to align physician behavior with the actions needed to make the system successful. Controlling that evolution over time is
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
What Your Doctors Need to Know About: Hospital-Physician Relationships and the Law
Healthcare is a highly regulated industry, particularly where transactions between physicians and hospitals are concerned. As a physician, whether you’re employed by a hospital, independent, or
Eight Proven Physician Strategies for Dealing with Soft Volumes
Almost every health system we work with is experiencing soft patient volumes. Our take is this is largely permanent, and a result of a fundamental shift in utilization. Incentives created by the ACA
Co-Management: An Option to ACOs
With the anticipated release of the ACO regulations, hospitals were provided with another reason to prepare for the payment reforms that are set to become reality in the next five years. Whether you