Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last The ED Is No Longer Your Front Door: The Physician’s Office Is The long-held notion that the ED is the front door to the hospital remains pervasive. And no wonder. As of just a few years ago, ED visits were responsible for a massive 70% of... Article Balancing The Physician Enterprise Triangle: Achieving Equilibrium Amid Rapid Change The human body is equipped with a heart, blood, and blood vessels that work together to provide adequate tissue perfusion. This concept, known as the “perfusion triangle,” is essential... Article Coming to Your Market Soon: Primary Care Physicians Empowered by Choice The aggressive growth plans of physician practice disruptors mean that competitive dynamics might change—and change quickly—in many local markets. Learn how independent physician groups and health systems can respond. Article Creating Patient-Centered Access to Care When your mother is sick, do you give her the number to your health system’s call center and hope for the best? Or do you start working your relationships to figure out how to get her... Article Renters or Owners: Real Estate and Physician Affiliation When health system leaders are thinking about building a medical office building or ambulatory surgery center as part of their ambulatory and physician affiliation strategy, the first question they should ask is, “Do we need to incentivize physicians in this market with real estate and create owners instead of renters?” Article Operationalizing Value-Based Primary Care: Lessons from the Field For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide. Article Physicians at the Center of Healthcare’s Realignment Healthcare is undergoing a major realignment as stakeholders compete for consumers’ attention. The different strategies intersect at the physician’s office, and physicians today face an unprecedented array of practice options. Article Operating a Provider Enterprise: Leveraging the Promise of Advanced Practice Providers While physicians have historically constituted the vast majority of a health system’s providers, in recent years advanced practice providers (APPs) have grown in number and importance... Article Putting Ambulatory Surgery Centers at the Center of Outpatient Strategy As health systems look to the future, surgical volume will continue shifting from HOPDs to ASCs. Health systems must be innovative and flexible to ensure that they participate in that growth with physician partners and others. Article The Metrics that Matter in Today's Physician Enterprise Over the last decade, the physician enterprise has undergone transformative changes. As of 2021, 73.9% of physicians were employed by hospitals or other corporate entities, according to... Article Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article Taking a Fresh Look at Affiliation Options for Physicians and Health Systems Health systems and physician practices—both independent and employed—could benefit from taking a fresh look at their affiliation options. Many health systems , responding in part to a... Article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
The ED Is No Longer Your Front Door: The Physician’s Office Is The long-held notion that the ED is the front door to the hospital remains pervasive. And no wonder. As of just a few years ago, ED visits were responsible for a massive 70% of... Article
Balancing The Physician Enterprise Triangle: Achieving Equilibrium Amid Rapid Change The human body is equipped with a heart, blood, and blood vessels that work together to provide adequate tissue perfusion. This concept, known as the “perfusion triangle,” is essential... Article
Coming to Your Market Soon: Primary Care Physicians Empowered by Choice The aggressive growth plans of physician practice disruptors mean that competitive dynamics might change—and change quickly—in many local markets. Learn how independent physician groups and health systems can respond. Article
Creating Patient-Centered Access to Care When your mother is sick, do you give her the number to your health system’s call center and hope for the best? Or do you start working your relationships to figure out how to get her... Article
Renters or Owners: Real Estate and Physician Affiliation When health system leaders are thinking about building a medical office building or ambulatory surgery center as part of their ambulatory and physician affiliation strategy, the first question they should ask is, “Do we need to incentivize physicians in this market with real estate and create owners instead of renters?” Article
Operationalizing Value-Based Primary Care: Lessons from the Field For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide. Article
Physicians at the Center of Healthcare’s Realignment Healthcare is undergoing a major realignment as stakeholders compete for consumers’ attention. The different strategies intersect at the physician’s office, and physicians today face an unprecedented array of practice options. Article
Operating a Provider Enterprise: Leveraging the Promise of Advanced Practice Providers While physicians have historically constituted the vast majority of a health system’s providers, in recent years advanced practice providers (APPs) have grown in number and importance... Article
Putting Ambulatory Surgery Centers at the Center of Outpatient Strategy As health systems look to the future, surgical volume will continue shifting from HOPDs to ASCs. Health systems must be innovative and flexible to ensure that they participate in that growth with physician partners and others. Article
The Metrics that Matter in Today's Physician Enterprise Over the last decade, the physician enterprise has undergone transformative changes. As of 2021, 73.9% of physicians were employed by hospitals or other corporate entities, according to... Article
Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article
Taking a Fresh Look at Affiliation Options for Physicians and Health Systems Health systems and physician practices—both independent and employed—could benefit from taking a fresh look at their affiliation options. Many health systems , responding in part to a... Article