As health care organizations evaluate how to reduce spiraling health care costs without jeopardizing quality, they are enlisting help from hospitalists, a growing subspecialty of internal medicine. D. Merriwether & Associates will share experience with hospitalist program development/expansion to
Develop a hospitalist model to meet
local market needs Facilitate understanding and support
for the programmodel
Identify resources needed to ensure
success Develop a program proforma Facilitate integrating the hospitalist
program with hospitalcase management
Recruit qualified hospitalists Develop physician compensation Develop quality measurements Develop proven hospitalist systems
and policies andprocedures
Provide advisory services for contract
negotiations withpayors
Negotiate contracts with inpatient
facilities Develop marketing material for referring
sources,patients, and payors
Provide on-going management oversight.
