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Health reform and the hospitalist
By Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM
Some sort of health reform is likely to be enacted by Congress before the year is out, and we can be sure that it will change hospital medicine in some manner, but details are still hazy.
We will see some expansion of coverage to the currently uninsured, which would help hospital medicine groups, but I am not sure that universal coverage will be achieved this year. Don’t look for a single payer system–this country is too pluralistic to accept that. Private insurers will continue to play an important role, and you’ll probably keep all or most of your present billing numbers.
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Audio: Physician-hospital alignment
Wondering whether your facility should pursue a joint venture with several local physicians? Pondering the benefits of gain sharing? Debating over physician employment? Join HCPro on June 16 for Physician-Hospital Alignment: Practical Tools and Models in Today’s Economy.
I had the opportunity to sit down with Robert “Buster” Mobley, MD, ACPE, executive vice president of medical affairs and quality, St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital last week for a pre-program interview.
Click below to listen to the full mini-interview.
Free sample med staff models tool: Physician-Hospital Alignment audio conference
Join HCPro on Tuesday, June 16, for Physician-Hospital Alignment: Practical Tools and Models in Today’s Economy.
During this 90-minute audio conference, Bill Leaver, president and CEO of Iowa Health System, will discuss his organization’s approach to adopting various medical staff models to cultivate successful physician-hospital relationships and improve the bottom line.
In addition, Robert “Buster” Mobley, MD, ACPE, executive vice president of medical affairs and quality at St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MS, shares a physician-economic alignment tool, which helps the organization determine how best to structure relationships with individual physicians.
Free Greeley white paper: Physician-hospital alignment
What do a fed-up ED on-call surgeon, disgruntled specialists, and a cross CEO all have in common? Problems with physician-hospital alignment.
“Regardless of the titles used in your organization, the point to consider is that a new set of leadership and management competencies is required to lead contemporary healthcare organizations,” says William K. Cors, MD, FACPE, MMM, CMSL, vice president of medical staff services, at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in Marblehead, MA.
The Greeley Medical Staff Institute recently released a free white paper, “Physician-Hospital Competition and Collaboration: The New C-suite—Sailing the Seven Cs,” that breaks down the solution to this problem into seven goals:
