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Preparing for Emerging Delivery Models: PHO Development to Facilitate Value-Based Care Delivery
Physician-Hospital Organizations (PHOs) are experiencing a resurgence, as hospitals and health systems grapple with ACOs, Bundled Payments, narrow networks and direct contracting in the wake of healthcare reform. During this […]
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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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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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How To Get the Most from a Physician Needs Analysis: Ask the Right Questions!
One size doesn’t fit all when developing a Physician Needs Analysis. While similar base components are always included, the scope, data elements, methodology and resulting analysis should reflect the questions […]
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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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Case Study: Building Relationships Between a Hospital, a Medical Community and Self-Insured Employers
Background Our client, a community health system in the eastern U.S., was experiencing significant competition in its primary market from nearby tertiary health systems. These tertiary systems were particularly aggressive […]
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Employer Health Clinics – Threat and Opportunity
There was a time when the jobsite clinic was a band-aid station, a place to assess work-related injuries and get people back to work. These clinics were just marginal players […]
