The La Penna Group, Inc. provides strategic and financial consulting services to the health care industry. For twenty-five years, our consultants have provided support to physicians, hospitals, provider networks, and employers for their strategic and tactical initiatives. Our staff offer a comprehensive set of management skills and in-depth experience for managing change in almost any health care setting.
Our clients include many of the premier medical practices and health care systems in the country, as well as Fortune 500 employers. We are routinely engaged in the most competitive and rapidly transforming healthcare environments all across the country. Practice re-organization? MSO's? Risk-sharing?
Our clients include many of the premier medical practices and health care systems in the country, as well as Fortune 500 employers. We are routinely engaged in the most competitive and rapidly transforming healthcare environments all across the country. Practice re-organization? MSO's? Risk-sharing?
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The cultivation of a strong and loyal medical staff is recognized as the key to survival for many hospitals and medical centers. Physicians draw patients, attract payers, and drive the quality of care that is essential to all successful healthcare enterprises.
Structured, focused, and regular medical staff planning efforts that identify both community and institutional needs have become the planning tool of choice for hundreds of successful healthcare organizations.Regulatory issues also make medical staff planning essential, as ever changing laws and interpretations restrict physician recruitment and require documentation of community need and benefit.
Structured, focused, and regular medical staff planning efforts that identify both community and institutional needs have become the planning tool of choice for hundreds of successful healthcare organizations.Regulatory issues also make medical staff planning essential, as ever changing laws and interpretations restrict physician recruitment and require documentation of community need and benefit.
Private practice physicians who form an association to meet the challenges of managed care or direct contracting with employers position themselves and their IPA to take advantage of many opportunities. For example, the most popular form of HMO network is the IPA model. In addition many states allow IPAs to assume risk without forming a group practice.
Revenue is something which needs to be analyzed and managed like any other practice resource. It depends upon, not only the number of patients which come through the door of a practice, but also the mix of procedures or services done for the patients and the payer mix which reflects the reimbursement support the patients in the practice bring to the equation.
As you open your office, you will want to make sure that certain functions are "audited" from time-to-time, especially during the first year of operations while staff are still learning the procedures you want to have in place and before things become routine. The following checklist will serve as a reminder to follow-up on important functional areas to make certain that policies have been correctly understood and consistently implemented.
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