What is the best way to strategically align with your physicians? We develop the right physician affiliation arrangements for you by spending the time up front to understand your organization's strategic objectives.

The Physician Services team has a history of creating successful physician affiliations in a wide variety of situations. Our success lies in our flexibility to structure an arrangement to suit your needs-with anything from direct employment to professional service arrangements.

Our acquisition plans are comprehensive and include signing bonuses, purchased hard assets, or purchased practice income streams-to assure that the final compensation plan integrates with the practice valuation. Our structured affiliation arrangements often include management service agreements or professional service arrangements as we work with your organization to develop a contractual relationship that is beneficial to you, your patients and the physicians.

If direct employment is required we can help design compensation programs that will allow you to recruit and retain the best physician talent. Through competitive compensation and benefit programs, including salaries, incentives, deferred compensation and other programs, we will work with you to develop a model that is right for your organization. But, the right structure is not all you need. A strong physician affiliation structure includes a solid financial arrangement, a high-quality professional services agreement, legally defensible employment agreements, and a fair market compensation plan.

It is critical that all of these arrangements be designed with the total compensation package in mind and account for all services and payments made to the physicians, including on-call and medical directorship payments. With our experience in setting up over 500 separate affiliation agreements, Integrated Healthcare Strategies will ensure that your arrangement is solid-and stands the test of time.