Practices
Physician Services Overview
The Physician Services practice of IHStrategies is dedicated to creating successful relationships between healthcare organizations and their practicing physicians. Our experienced consultants can help your organization develop compensation programs that are not only in line with fair market value and are commercially reasonable, but also consistent with best practices. All of our senior consultants have previously held healthcare administration roles, and have completed thousands of physician-focused client engagements - earning us a reputation as an industry leader.
While the challenges of your healthcare organization can be unique, Physician Services' extensive and broad ranging client list lends itself to an unmatched level of experience. Successful client outcomes with similar challenges qualifies us to help you find a solution. We spend considerable time and effort researching and exploring trends and technical issues in order to develop and test innovative approaches not usually considered by other consulting firms. Our consulting team is willing to back up our opinion in the face of scrutiny from outside organizations, such a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Our Physician Services group has been asked to provide expert testimony in federal investigations on multiple occasions and is routinely sought out by legal counsel to opine on the fair market value and commercial reasonableness of physician contracts.
Our physician opinion surveys uncover hidden perceptions about your organization. Our compensation review ensures that your current level of compensation is both reasonable and in compliance with federal Stark and Private Inurement legislation. Our leader services support the development and compensation of effective medical directors and medical staff leaders. Finally, our physician practice affiliation procedures allow you to structure your relationship appropriately — through direct employment or professional service arrangements.
We can help with the following challenges: physician fair market value and commercial reasonableness assessments, physician compensation review and design, medical directorships, recruitment and retention strategies, physician affiliation, employment of physicians and professional service agreements, call coverage (and other complex compensation structures), clinical co-management, compensation program development, practice management, physician opinion assessment, organizational and governance structure development.
Our thorough process includes comparisons of your current performance metrics to national and regional data as well as to our own extensive proprietary database, to give you the confidence that your organization is in line with today's "best practice" standards of operation.
Our services are proven to provide value to you and your physicians and to position you for success now and into the future.
