Physician/Hospital Integration
Why is physician-hospital alignment so important to building a well-conceived integration strategy?
In the past, integration has been pursued with an array of organizationally-driven goals:
- Protecting/expanding market share
- Securing a more stable provider platform
- Preventing duplication of services
- Consolidating the delivery system
And while those goals remain relevant today, in this new era of Health Care Reform, other goals have emerged as essential to success:
- Providing an exceptional patient experience each and every time
- Measuring the quality and value of care delivered
- Delivering the highest quality of care with the least amount of variation and greatest efficiency
- Population health management
Wipfli health care professionals believe that physician-hospital integration must start with an appreciation for the differences between traditional hospital and physician business models and operations. With that shared understanding the journey to develop a more effective and efficient community delivery system can begin with three key concepts:
- Physician influence over and participation in the success
- Development of a robust clinical integration program (CIP)
- Focus on quality management programs and protocols and the requisite infrastructure (i.e., IT, facility/ equipment, etc.) and physician compensation models to manage them
- Effective leadership and governance
In addition, Wipfli is able to assist in a variety of other areas that typically need to be addressed as clients move towards full integration:
- Strategic Business and Financial Planning
- Facility Development and Planning
- Revenue Management
- Hospital/ Medical Practice Operations
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