Physician Practice Operational Consulting
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Practice Formation Services
Goal:
- Create a practice environment that allows the physician to focus on patient care.
- Develop a practice culture and environment to maximize profitability of the practice.
- Alleviate the pressure on the physician to micro manage the formation of the practice.
Benefits:
- Defined strategic plan for the new practice.
- Facilitation of space acquisition.
- Identification and evaluation of potential employees.
- Negotiation of contracts, leases and equipment purchases.
- Clear performance guidelines, reporting structure and evaluation criteria.
- Reduced burden on the physician during the transition to the new practice.
- Experienced advice and leadership during the transition.
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Practice Strategic Planning
Goal:
- Define and implement a five-year plan for the practice to meet personal, professional
and income goals of the physicians.
Benefits:
- Defined performance standards and goals.
- Defined marketing strategy.
- Improved decision-making.
- Tools to evaluate practice performance.
Quarterly review and evaluation services also available.
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Employee Productivity and Incentive Tune-Up
Goal:
- Maximize efficiency of office personnel.
- Train employees to improve performance and skills.
- Motivate employees to perform most productive tasks at a consistently high level.
Benefits:
- Independent evaluation of how tasks are distributed to employees.
- Defined performance standards for all employees.
- Defined incentive plan to reward employees for meeting performance standards.
- Simplified and quantitative employee evaluation criteria.
- Enhance teamwork among employees.
- Improved skill level of all employees.
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Cost Control Tune-Up
Goal:
- Identification of cost saving opportunities.
- Reduction of overhead to 40% of revenues.
Benefits:
- Comparison of practice cost structure to similar specialty practices.
- Defined procedures to help control costs.
- Benchmarks and evaluation criteria to track cost control performance.
- Identification of areas for improvement to maximize profitability.
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30 – Minute Manager System
Goal:
- Establish a system of reporting to best evaluate practice performance.
- Development of benchmarks and evaluation criteria to quickly identify problem areas.
- Reduce the physician time dedicated to administrative functions within the practice.
Benefits:
- Consistent reporting structure focused on critical functions within the practice.
- Easy to use benchmarks and evaluation criteria.
- Clear definition of areas for improvement within the practice.
- Defined procedures to verify performance.
- Focused management and reduced meeting times.
- Quarterly audit services also available.
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Billing and Collections Tune-Up
Goal:
- Define standards and procedures to maximize collections.
- Develop tracking systems to quickly respond to changes in insurance company coding and reimbursement standards.
Benefits:
- Independent evaluation of current billing and coding practices.
- Defined areas for improvement to maximize collections.
- Easily implemented strategies to maximize collections.
- Benchmarks to track performance of billing and collections.
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Marketing, Referral and Service Expansion Tune-Up
Goal:
- Identification of new or expanded sources of patients.
- Creation of a strategic marketing plan to attract new patients to the practice.
- Evaluation of new service or product opportunities.
Benefits:
- Defined target market to increase patient flows.
- Strategies to promote the image and advantages of the practice.
- Improved decision making with regard to new product or service offerings.
- Defined goals for increased patient flows.
- Defined evaluation criteria and performance standards for marketing opportunities.
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Practice Dissolution Services
Goal:
- To maximize the residual value of the practice.
- To ease the transition out of the practice for the physician.
Benefits:
- Complete valuation of practice.
- Coordinated division of assets.
- Protection of ownership rights.
- Reduced burden on physician during the dissolution process.
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Quick Fact:
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