AFFILIATIONS & PARTNERSHIP

Expertise Across the Partnership Continuum
We bring a proven approach to successful partnership development, supported by a multidisciplinary team of professionals with extensive consulting and industry experience.
Key to our success was collaboration. We also worked from the beginning to set forth clear goals and commitments that focused on delivering value to patients, caregivers, and the community. Both put us in a position to succeed as we carried the work forward on our own.

Hospital and Physician Affiliation Consulting
A close affiliation with a physician practice can strengthen your hospital’s position in the market.
Lion Heart Healthcare understands the challenges both physician practices and hospitals face in these relationships and can help you to navigate the complex issues.

What’s on your mind?
Decreased operating margins
Reduction in payer reimbursement (managed care contracting)
Maintaining or improving market share
Implementing technology solutions (e.g., new patient financial systems and electronic health records [EHR])
Recruiting primary care physicians (PCP) and/or specialty doctors
Providing reimbursement for call coverage
Getting physicians involved in hospital recruitment strategies and governance of medical staff
Reducing the competition between physicians and hospitals to maximize use of limited resources
Recruiting and retaining a new generation of physicians

A unique approach
We offer a holistic consulting approach and will provide a critical and in-depth analysis of your current or potential affiliation agreements. We often work in a dual role, where we balance the interests and goals of the hospital and physician leaders. This positions us to focus on financial, strategic, and operational improvements that benefit both parties.
Our health care consultants keep up with industry trends and are knowledgeable about the growing movement toward more closely aligned hospital-physician relationships. We’ll help determine key advantages and disadvantages of potential models in an effort to improve:

• Recruitment and retention of physicians
• Practice stability
• Access to resources
• Integrated care delivery for your communities
• Hospital and physician affiliation consulting services
• Strategic planning and execution
• Facilitation of physician-hospital integration
• Physician practice revenue cycle assessment and improvement
• Revenue cycle performance management
• Employment agreement and compensation review
• Managed care contracting
• Fair market opinions and valuations
• EHR system evaluation, template design, and
• implementation management
• Clinical services contracts and coverage negotiations
• Acquisition assessments and contract negotiations
• Interim practice management
• Training, education, and seminars for medical staff and
• Administrators
• Assistance in transitioning hospital-employed physicians to private practice