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Webinar: Physician Compensation: Laying the Groundwork for Clinical Integration
Physician compensation is an important component of physician aligment. In the drive to build clinically integrated networks, one obstacle hospitals and healthcare systems must overcome is ensuring that ALL participating […]
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Webinar: Clinical Integration 101
With CMS’s goal to achieve 50 percent alternative Medicare payment models by the close of 2018, health systems are increasingly focusing on clinical integration. However, most hospitals and systems […]
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Measuring Progress Toward Clinical Integration: Where Does Your Physician Network Fall on the Life Cycle Bell Curve?
Physician network development progresses on a life cycle bell curve. Knowing where you are on that curve is crucial to your progress toward becoming a clinically integrated system. We generally […]
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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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Tipping Point for Clinical Integration
Many “experts” are recommending a focus on clinical integration, and we are no different. Much of our work relates to leveraging the expertise of employed physicians concerning care processes, and […]
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Leveraging Your Investment in Your Clinical Integration Strategy
HSG has released the whitepaper “Developing YOUR Clinical Integration Strategy: A Hospital Executive’s Guide to Preparing for Health Reform,” which addresses how hospitals and health systems should evaluate what clinical integration will mean […]
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Driving Clinical Integration
Strategic planning efforts in hospitals are increasingly concerned with clinical integration. But the topic is so broad, it is difficult for many to get started. We have found it useful […]
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Clinical Integration as an Alternative to Employment
Hospitals lose $150,000 to $250,000 per year over the first 3 years of employing a physician according the May 12, 2011 NEJM article “Hospitals’ Race to Employ Physicians – The […]