1st Edition

Physician Alignment Constructing Viable Roadmaps for the Future

    157 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
    by Productivity Press

    Through healthcare reform, payment modifications, transparency, and a renewed focus on value, the healthcare industry is changing its organizational structure from one of a multitude of individual entities to one of a system-of-care model. This restructuring and subsequent alignment of information presents new risks and opportunities for physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers.

    Emphasizing effective interactions between physicians and the health system, Physician Alignment: Constructing Viable Roadmaps for the Future examines the different ways physicians and hospitals can create systems to not only survive, but thrive through the changes facing healthcare. It draws on experienced authors in the area of physician purchasing to explain the various integrative models for physicians and hospitals.

    • Provides an accessible introduction to the different types of healthcare delivery models
    • Covers the various types of integration—starting with the simplest and evolving into full employment models with full integration
    • Includes helpful information for doctors considering a transition to physician employment
    • Highlights emerging trends in healthcare

    Explaining how these systems should be constructed and aligned, the book provides healthcare organizations with a roadmap for planning for the future. The book concludes with a chapter on accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes that moves from the conceptual to administrative embodiments of the principles of an integrated health system as we now know it.

    Introduction: How We Got Here
    Historical Perspective
    Economic Imperatives
    Bibliography

    Overview of the Future
    Introduction
    Physician and Hospital Trust
    Bibliography

    Traditional Integration Models
    Medical Staff
    Medical Directorships
    Call Coverage
    Bibliography

    Revenue of the Acronyms: Co-management, IPA, and PHO Integration Structure
    Introduction
    Clinical Co-management: Share the Gain
         Co-management Example
    The Independent Practitioners Association: How Exclusive Is the Club?
    The Physician Hospital Organization: Venus and Mars Form a Company
    Bibliography

    Physician Employment
    What Is Old Is New: Employment
    Employment Considerations
    Changing World: Making the Decision
    Physician Employment Agreements
         From the Physician Side
         From the Hospital Side
         Physician View
         It Is All About Integration
    Foundation Model
    Physician Service Agreements
    Clinical Institutes
    Governance
    Physician Payment Models
    Appendix: Cultural Assessment Tool
    Bibliography

    Clinical Integration
    What Is Clinical Integration?
    Bundled Payments
    Legal Limitations to Integration
    Information Technology
    Bibliography

    Accountable Care Organizations and the Patient-Centered Medical Home
    Introduction
    Accountable Care Organizations
    Patient-Centered Medical Home
         How Doctors Want to Be Paid for Providing a Medical Home
    Bibliography

    Assessing Your Current Alignment Strategy

    Examples of Systems Strategic Alignment Initiatives
    Methodist Le Bonheur; William Breen , Jr.
    Bibliography

    Putting It All Together: Full Integration
    Introduction
    Blurring of Boundaries
    Health versus Healthcare
    Performance-Based System
    Demographic and Environmental Factors
    Legal Environment
    Metrics and Transparency
    Population Health
    Physician Leadership
    Patient Engagement
    Transformation
    Bibliography

    Biography

    George Mayzell, MD, MBA, FACP, FACHE, is a board-certified internist and geriatrician with over 10 years of patient care experience and over 19 years of administrative health industry experience. Dr. Mayzell assumed the role of chief executive officer of Health Choice, LLC, in November 2010. Health Choice is one of the mid-South’s leading physician hospital organizations, serving the needs of more than 518,000 health plan members through contracts with over 100 employers, insurance companies, and third-party administrators and 1500 physicians through Metro Care Physicians. One of his recent projects is to create an accountable care partnership and an innovative system of patient-focused care.

    Previously, Dr. Mayzell was senior vice president and chief patient care officer at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. Methodist is a seven-hospital system with over 1600 licensed beds in Memphis, Tennessee. He was responsible for patient care operations and oversight of regulatory readiness for the system. He also served as chief medical officer (CMO) for Methodist Germantown Hospital. In addition to being a past faculty member at the University of Florida, Dr. Mayzell worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, where he was directly involved with medical management activities, including disease management, utilization review, appeals and grievances, case management, pharmacy benefits, pay for performance, and Medicare risk. Dr. Mayzell received his medical degree from New Jersey Medical and his MBA from Jacksonville University. He is the author of Leveraging Lean in Healthcare (CRC Press, 2011).

    William R. (Bill) Breen Jr. has over 25 years experience in healthcare network leadership and relationship management. Bill worked at a large insurer from 1984 to 1991, building networks of physicians and hospitals to support managed care contracting. In 1991, he joined Methodist Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, to help lead a growing managed care network (Health Choice) that Methodist had built several years earlier. Bill rose to be the chief executive officer (CEO) of Health Choice in 1997 and assisted it through a reorganization as a full hospital/physician joint venture. During his tenure, the network grew to be the commercial market share leader in Memphis and developed numerous payer partnerships that benefitted the hospital system and over 1200 physicians. He also led the development of services to aligned physicians that improved physician practice operations and loyalty to the health system. Bill now serves as the senior vice president of physician alignment for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and is responsible for implementing and managing physician alignment activities for the system and remains as a board member of the physician-hospital organization (PHO). Bill has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville and a master’s in business administration from the University of Memphis. He has achieved his fellowship in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and is a certified medical practice executive in the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).

    As one who participates in medical school and health system administration, I recommend this volume for its emphasis on understanding and creating the health system of the future.
    —David Stern, MD, Executive Dean, Vice Chancellor of Clinical Affairs, UT College of Medicine