Practices

Physician Leader Services

Recent developments in the healthcare industry have boards, CEOs and CMOs focusing on the performance of their physician leaders, prompting them to ask themselves some very important questions:

  • Do we have the best arrangements in place to balance all of the interactive components that are the prerequisite for achieving higher performance?
  • What is the best approach to auditing the legality and effectiveness of our current arrangements for medical director roles and compensation?
  • What strategies and systems are high-performing hospital organizations using to develop and support successful physician leaders and medical directors?
  • How can we increase the probability that we will receive good ROI from our substantial investments in physician leader arrangements?

Integrated Healthcare Strategies' Physician Leader Services (PLS) can provide valuable insights and direct you to a variety of useful resources to help you answer these questions. We help Boards, CEOs and CMOs improve on their investment in physician leaders and medical directors.

Three key services are Physician Leaders Culture and Effectiveness Audits, Physician Leader Compensation Design and developing and enhancing Physician Leadership Academies.

Hospitals and health systems' success is based on focused physician alignment linked to the performance goals of the organization. Enhanced physician alignment directly correlates with the effectiveness of physician leaders, whether they are voluntary medical staff, clinical department chairpersons or in other key medical director leadership roles.

Our Physician Leader Services provides support beyond compensation design to include innovative position descriptions, medical director contract management, performance planning and appraisal systems and effective incentive compensation programs for a new era of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In addition, we provide support to establish and conduct "Physician Leadership Academies" for continuous leader competency enhancement.

From assessment of your physician leader recruiting and contract arrangements and design of effective support systems to leadership education and development, Integrated Healthcare Strategies has the tools — and the expertise — to help strengthen the effectiveness of your physician leaders.

Our Physician Leader Services provide the ongoing support and resources to:

  • Efficiently help physicians focus their time and talents in their leader positions to align their work with your strategic vision, plans, and budgets.
  • Continuously enhance the leadership capabilities of these physician leaders so they can earn the respect and support of their colleagues.
  • Properly and effectively recognize and reward these leaders to achieve higher levels of performance that delights your board, your executives, and employees.
  • Readily defend your physician compensation arrangements when asked by your board, media, the IRS or your state's attorney general.

With over 10 years of development and experience, Integrated Healthcare Strategies has a depth of knowledge and access to the sophisticated tools you need to successfully answer these important questions.

Introducing Physician LeadersNet™

Our Physician LeadersNet™ helps you access the results of our consulting support to audit and then enhance your unique Physician Leadership Performance Program (PLPP). Your physician leaders have convenient 24/7 access to these findings and resources in a secure and dedicated web site through your hospital intranet, but hosted by Integrated Healthcare Strategies for easy maintenance and enhancements.