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Contract or homegrown hospitalist staffing?

Medical Staff Briefing, July 1, 2009

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To contract or not to contract—that’s the question many hospital CEOs face when considering starting a hospitalist program or when an existing program has failed. It can be a difficult decision, one often influenced by medical staff–hospital politics. HLA talked to the leaders of two hospitalist management companies to learn what questions the hospital C-suite should ask before making the decision to sign on the dotted line.
For example, how much experience does the hospital have managing physician practices? If your hospital is like most others, the answer is probably “not a lot.” Most hospitals struggle with physician practices, including appropriately incentivizing physicians, providing qualified leadership, and running an efficient billing operation, says Robert Holloway, MD, FACP, founder, CEO, and chief medical officer of InCompass Health, Inc., in Alpharetta, GA.

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