You want to reduce physician subsidies in your employed physician enterprise, and you have numerous initiatives to increase physician engagement under way. What matters, however, is not the number of physician engagement efforts, but how thoroughly they engage physicians in operations at the ground level. Veralon recently surveyed leadership at 30 physician enterprises with 11,000 […]
Acquiring physician practices may be the key for hospitals and health systems to strengthen market position.
Larger physician practices, both primary care and specialists, are increasingly the focus of hospital and health system acquisition efforts. If a large practice is not affiliated with the buying organization, or if it refers a relatively small percentage of their clinical business to them, acquisition of the practice can generate significant incremental volume and improve […]