Building Management Expertise for Your Employed Physician network

Independent hospitals and health systems have been aggressively investing in employed physician groups for the last 10 years. They have employed hundreds of physicians, both primary care and specialists, in an effort to capture market share and position themselves for valuebased care initiatives.

This strategy makes sense, but hospitals and health systems have discovered challenges from employing more physicians. Among them:

• Melding disparate physician cultures into a unified and cohesive group culture.

• Moving all physicians to common technology systems.

• Onboarding new physicians, practices, and their staff, which proves very different from onboarding new hospital employees.

• Timely communication and sharing practice information.

• Revenue cycle performance.

• Keeping physicians engaged in the management of their practices.

• Building a shared vision for what the physician network will look like in the future.

The magnitude of these problems varies depending upon what stage your network is in. As physician networks experience rapid growth they almost always experience some sort of operational chaos as the network assimilates physicians with different cultures into the group practice.

This paper outlines a multi-faceted approach toward building a high-performing network. Download “Building Management Expertise for your Employed Physician Network” to:

• Put your network’s challenges into context.

• Develop a plan for engaged, high-performing physician networks.

• Learn how to discover gaps in your organization’s capabilities.

“As physician networks experience rapid growth they almost always experience some sort of operational chaos as the network assimilates physicians with different cultures into the group practice.”