Healthcare reform (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPACA), encourages the development of integrated delivery systems through its focus on medical homes, physician-hospital enterprises, accountable care organizations and bundled payment methods.  These are all key drivers in considering closer hospital-physician alignment.  In A.M. Best’s 2010 Hospital & Health Care Systems Survey, healthcare organization leaders and professionals ranked physician integration as the top strategic challenge facing healthcare organizations.

Here are a few other reasons feeding the integration trend:

1.         Uncertainty around reimbursement for both physicians and hospitals

2.         Increasing costs and other negative economic pressures on physician incomes

3.         Physician expectations for financial support ...

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The Pinnacle Group is a nationally recognized leader in valuation services, physician compensation, revenue cycle & coding consulting, and hospital-physician integration. Pinnacle supports a wide variety of clients including, but not limited to: hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dialysis providers, medical device and other healthcare companies. Sister companies to Pinnacle provide services related to physician practice management, medical billing and coding, and technology/integration support services, which affords Pinnacle operational perspectives and insights - not typically available through other consulting firms. Pinnacle's services are backed by a professional and responsive team, to help our clients devise solutions to their complex and challenging issues.

 

Posted By John Kastor On December 20, 2010 @ 11:07 am In All Categories,Health Reform,Innovation,Payment,Physicians

or follow http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/12/20/productivity-still-drives-compensation-in-high-performing-group-practices/ to the HealthAffairs Blog.

In July, 2009, President Obama visited the Cleveland Clinic  demonstrating that large multispecialty practices have lower cost and higher quality in treating Medicare recipients compared to other practitioners in their regions.

One of the hypotheses for this ...

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6 Essential Strategies for Physician Integration | Hospital-Physician Relationships.

Written by Leigh Page | December 10, 2010

Integrated physician arrangements, aligning clinical and financial interests, will be critical to the success of hospitals and health systems in the future as payment methodologies change, says Mark Grube, managing director at Kaufman Hall in Skokie, Ill. Here he outlines six essential strategies for physician integration.

1. Develop a physician-hospital alignment plan. Such a plan should support the hospital’s strategic goals. The hospital needs to prepare for a new era driven by ...

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HCCA’s Regional Denver Conference

October 22, 2010

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8:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m.

 

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