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Employed Physician Networks
The Vision
A limited membership group of hospital/health systems executives who run networks of employed physicians and who work in non-competing, not-for-profit, geographically dispersed hospitals and health systems throughout the country. These individuals meet to share experiences, projects, management challenges, and strategies as well as future trends and issues in order to instruct, improve, and enlighten one another. The Roundtable Meetings are highly interactive with Members freely sharing about specific experiences from their workplaces. Members of The Healthcare Roundtable form deep personal and professional relationships that bring maximum value to their organizations throughout the year.
Who is Qualified to Participate?
The focus of this Roundtable Group will be on the employment of physicians by hospitals/health systems.
This Roundtable is not designed for physician group practices that are not comprised of physicians employed by hospitals/health systems. It will not focus on joint ventures or partnering models that do not include full employment.
Therefore, we will not offer Memberships to leaders of group practices that are not fully employed by hospitals and health systems.
The “Dyad Concept” and Double Memberships
Traditionally, our Roundtables have been comprised of individual Members (e.g. one executive in a specific job title from a given organization.) In keeping with this practice, we will be offering Single Memberships to this Roundtable Group.
However, many organizations have two individuals sharing responsibility for their employed physicians networks using the dyad concept (e.g., the VPMA and the COO; the COO and a Senior Practice Administrator; a Physician network CEO and a System Exec VP). Therefore, this Roundtable will also offer the opportunity for two members to join in a Double Membership.
The Meetings
The Members formally convene
two times per year, spring and fall, for a two-day interactive session.
Participants identify the issues they want to explore and the experts
they want to hear from. A typical two-day Roundtable seminar will
feature 3-5 speakers (outside speakers and/or Members themselves)
making presentations on recent trends and innovative projects.
Issues may include topics such as: - Loosely affiliated group practices or aggregated multi-specialty mega-practices – which one makes sense?
- The employment of specialists – how is it different from primary care?
- Getting the compensation model down – how to avoid the losses of the 90’s
- Are the employed physicians considered employees or members of the medical staff when it comes to discipline issues?
- Who runs the physician network -- Hire a physician CEO? An MGMA type CEO? Separate medical director?
- Should the top person be called a “CEO”?
- Who runs the business office and the credit and collection function – the hospitals folks or specialized physician practice business office types? Who handles IT?
- Governance – use of a physician “board” or a cabinet
- Legal structures – what are the various options?
- Balancing the issues of employed physicians versus independent physicians
- Integrating quality measurement into the physician practices
- IT and EMR/EHR for the practices
- Employment contracts or other approach?
- Employing hospital-based specialists – right ways and wrong ways
- ED call pay – does employment really solve the problem?
- Managing provision for charity care – paying for the mission
- Building the network – acquisition or employing new grads
- Improving performance within the owned and operated medical practices, with the spotlight on improving the bottom line
- Compensation in employed physician networks increasingly should be tied to reductions in direct physician overhead costs for such things as staffing and supplies
- Reporting up to a corporate board – how do you keep them from focusing solely on profit or loss rather than looking at the employed network from a more strategic viewpoint?
Members are encouraged to present the issues/problems they are facing so that fellow Members can advise one another as peer consultants. During these interactive discussions, Members share new innovations and projects-in-process.
The Roundtable Dues, Attendance and Guest Policy
A Member may bring one guest to
any Meeting, particularly an individual who is considering membership. Guest registrations are made in advance (at no additional
charge)--limited to four total per Roundtable Meeting.
Single Memberships will be $2,995
for two consecutive Meetings. Double Memberships will be $5600, also for two consecutive Meetings.
Scheduled Meetings of The Healthcare Roundtable
for Employed Physician Networks
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November 12 (Dinner)--14, 2008
The Westin City Center
Dallas, TX
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April 2-3, 2009
The Four Seasons
Atlanta, GA
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