Thought Leadership Articles
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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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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 […]
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Webinar: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Revenue Cycle Management
Rapid growth of employed physician networks has resulted in many areas of concern for hospitals and health systems related to: Multiple practice management systems Poor infrastructure Need for centralized business […]
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Five Physician Comp Tips for Achieving Success Under Value-Based Purchasing
As reimbursement shifts to value, is your physician compensation plan keeping up with the changes? Programs like Value-Based Purchasing, Readmission Penalties, and Hospital Acquired Conditions Penalties are holding hospitals accountable […]
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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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Quality Measures for Primary Care Physicians
With healthcare reform and the move to value-based reimbursement from both governmental and non-governmental payers, health systems across the country have been shifting their employed physician compensation models from purely […]
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Webinar: Critical Considerations for Merging Physician Networks
In the whirlwind of hospital and health system consolidation, it’s tempting for hospitals to treat their physician networks like any other department, but it’s a unique strategic asset that requires […]
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Three Hospital CEOs on the Top Challenges They Face and the Tough Decisions They Make
Each year the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) sends a survey to over 1,000 hospital CEOs in hopes of learning something new about what’s on the minds of our […]
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Webinar: Healthcare Reform & Physician Compensation: The Changes You MUST Make in 2014
As the ACA implementation continues, hospital revenue will be increasingly affected by quality and outcomes. Initiatives such as Value-Based Purchasing, CPOE, and the Readmissions Reduction Program require that hospitals work […]
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Case Study: Interim Management for an Employed Physician Network
Background Our Midwestern hospital client had a rapidly-growing employed physician network. The network was multi-specialty and was deployed to expand the hospital’s footprint in outreach markets. Developing the group culture […]
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Webinar: Turn Your Physician Network into a Strategic Weapon
Despite the vast investments hospitals have made in physician practices, most struggle with their profitability. Today’s goal may be to stop the bleed, but there’s a bigger-picture issue that also […]
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The Key to Population Health Management for Hospitals: Concentrate on Super Utilizers
The most logical place to begin Population Health Management in any setting is by honing in on an organization’s sickest patients. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality […]
