Marc Halley, president and chief executive officer of The Halley Consulting Group, provides a guide to successful physician/hospital integration.
Physicians and their practices are facing a variety of upcoming structural models - ACOs, bundled payments, patient centered medical homes - which require further integration, communication, and coordination with hospitals. In addition, many physicians are seriously considering the most extreme form of integration: hospital employment.
In this podcast, Marc Halley, president and chief executive officer of The Halley Consulting Group and a presenter at the MGMA11 Conference in Las Vegas, provides some guidance on how physicians can best prepare for further physician-hospital integration.