balance physician, hospital, and community needs with a better...
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Today, ever more physicians want to be paid for ED call. Whatever your hospital paid physicians for ED call last year is not enough this year. Specialties that haven’t been paid before now demand pay for call. And more phy-sicians refuse to cover inpatient consultations without payment.
Together, these challenges create an expensive and slippery slope for ED call compensation that hospitals cannot sustain. Yet when hospitals and physicians try to agree on pay for call, discussions all too often degenerate into anger, threats, and ultimatums. If your goal is to implement a fair, effective, and sustainable approach to ED call, The Greeley Company can help. Based on our experience working with hospitals across the country, our consul-tants offer practical solutions to ED call challenges.
The Greeley Company can help you:
• Transform ED call compensation negotiations into a fair and constructive process
• Improve EMTALA compliance
• Measure the true burden of call for each specialty
• Quantify what physicians can collect while on call to prevent “double dipping”
• Establish fair market value compensation by specialty
• Determine when to move to a surgical or specialty hospitalist program
• Utilize a physician employment strategy to help with ED call
• Address other physician-hospital issues that are inflaming ED call
• Handle physicians limiting their privileges to avoid ED call
• Deal with physicians failing to respond to ED call pages
• Implement a policy that ensures the medical staff fulfills its responsibilities for ED call
• Improve physician-hospital relationships while addressing ED call
With help from The Greeley Company, you’ll obtain a result that both physicians and hospitals feel is as fair as it can be. Our consultants work with you to obtain data that illustrates the extent of your ED call problems,assess the situation for a more accurate picture of your specific challenges, and implement and sustain results that are fair to all parties. We are professionals collaborating with fellow professionals to help them succeed.
The Greeley Company is an organization that genuinely cares about each client we serve. We recognize that our clients’ mission is healing, the alleviation of pain and suffering, and continuous improvement of healthcare for all. We pledge to assist our clients with their mission through the provision of excellent education, peerless service, practical guidance, and high-quality deliverables.
We are a nationally respected consulting, training, and education company known for providing practical, effective strategies and solutions to assist the leaders of today’s healthcare organizations. Our consultants and educators are physician leaders and senior healthcare professionals with hands-on experience in hospital, ambulatory, physician practice, and managed care settings. We partner with nurses, physicians, and hospital clients to produce high-impact results that serve the best interests of their organizations, their patients, and the communities they serve.
To learn more about our onsite consulting services, please contact: Robin L. Flynn | 888/749-3054, ext. 3249
e-mail [email protected] | www.greeley.com
Balance physician, hospital, and community needs with a better approach to ED call