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Four Key Components of Comanagement Arrangements
Comanagement strategies are growing more prevalent as hospitals and physicians seek to strengthen alignment. Yet many physicians and health system administrators lack a complete understanding of the...
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Five Steps for Developing Comanagement Arrangements
Hospitals and physicians are increasingly buying into the buzz around comanagement strategies. But before you dive headfirst into comanagement, it’s important to know how to navigate these relatively...
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Collaboration in Pediatric Healthcare: Aligning Children’s Hospitals and...
Healthcare reform has triggered waves of change across the U.S. healthcare market, forcing systems and providers to reevaluate how, when, where, and whom they partner with to deliver care. Responding...
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Five Attributes of the Thriving Value-Based Enterprise
Since the early 1990s, conversations about healthcare reform have taken place almost entirely in the future tense. Transformational change was desired but distant, interminably stalled by divisive...
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What’s Trending? Observing the Impact of Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform and evolving reimbursement models are transforming the way care is and will be delivered and paid for. This has incited myriad responses by hospitals and physician groups, as well as...
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ECG’s John Fink Wins HFMA Award
Congratulations to John Fink on receiving the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Helen Yerger/L. Vann Seawell Best Article Award for 2014-2015! John’s article, “Aligning with Physicians to...
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Value-Based Enterprise Conversation Series: Responsive
In the era of health reform, new payment methodologies built around value and shared risk are replacing traditional fee-for-service reimbursement models. Shifting payment structures are symbolic of the...
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Rethinking Deficit Funding in AMCs
It is an uncomfortable ritual that occurs in nearly every academic medical center (AMC): specialties unable to meet their department profitability targets find themselves hat in hand, requesting...
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Healthcare Acquisitions: A Continuing Conversation
This post features a conversation between Senior Managers Sean Hartzell and Matt Sturm. On January 14, 2016, I had the pleasure of moderating an ECG Management Consultants webinar titled “Healthcare...
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To Acquire or Not to Acquire: A Continuing Conversation
On February 11, ECG hosted a webinar titled “To Acquire or Not to Acquire That Physician Practice: An Assessment Framework to Drive Smart, Strategic Decisions.” Presenters Sean Hartzell, a Senior...
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