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Medical Staff Development Planning
Learn how we have evolved the process by which Health Systems have historically approached Medical Staff Development Planning.
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Quality: Excerpt from “67 Tips for a High-Performing Physician Network”
Improving care processes and outcomes has never been more important as reimbursement systems and incentives change. Your employed group is the vehicle that can help you drive change throughout your system. Creating a network built on quality is the lynchpin of value-based reimbursement. That means defined clinical performance and customer service standards, and putting quality…
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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 Ideal Physician Advisory Council membership composition varies according to the employed physician network’s size and complexity. Provider membership should be relatively inclusive to: Achieve the…
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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 a decade-long acceleration of physician employment (hospitals now own nearly 75 percent of physician practices in the country) has created a new challenge for hospitals…
