Strategies for Superior Cardiovascular Service Line Performance - Softcover

Redefine value, drive excellence, and keep market share in your cardiovascular service line

New approaches to payment, more educated consumers, mandatory outcomes reporting, competition from outpatient settings, and payers’ focus on greater value are rapidly changing the market dynamics for cardiovascular services. To succeed in this targeted and competitive environment it is imperative that senior leaders redefine their organizations’ value through quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction.

Strategies for Superior Cardiovascular Service Line Performance delivers sound strategy and business guidance for driving excellence in cardiovascular service line development and management. Through industry experience and discussion of best practices, readers will hear from top cardiovascular service line experts with a roadmap to:

• Promote strong physician-hospital relationships through favorable alignment models
• Learn keys to creating sustainable physician employment arrangements
• Create a strategic plan that defines the key elements for success going forward and drives volume growth
• Maximize your organization’s value through physician-driven service line management and governance structures
• Prevent—and reverse—margin erosion through effective managed care contracting and being responsive to emerging reimbursement trends
• Understand the growing trends and value of leveraging information technology to improve cardiac care

• Introduction to Service Line Principles
• Key Elements for Service Line Success
• Implementation Issues
• The Future for CV Service Lines

• Key Elements of Strategic Planning
• Situational Assessment
• Vision Development
• Goals
• Strategy Development
• Tactical and Implementation Planning
• Conclusions

• Physician Strategy Planning Process
• Key Considerations
• Models for Physician Alignment
• Lessons Learned

• Management Structures
• Service Line Leadership Structures
• Governance Structures
• System-Wide Service Lines

• Evolution of the Medical Staff Model
• Pushing the Boundaries of CV Clinical Integration
• Revisiting the Departmental Structure
• New Physician Leadership and Team Requirements
• Lessons Learned

• Market Trends Driving CV Physician Employment
• Common Obstacles to Success
• Elements of Successful Employment Models
• Financial Implications of CV Physician Employment
• Lessons Learned

• Designation Selection
• Overview of Rankings and Accreditation
• Methodologies
• Lessons Learned from Award-Winning Heart Programs
• Results of Achieving Program Recognition
• Understanding the Current Reimbursement Landscape
• Keys to Effective Commercial Contract Negotiations
• Innovative Measures of Performance/Payment Methodologies
• Lessons Learned

• Cardiology Hospital Departments
• Cardiology Physician Practices
• Cardiology Resources and Initiatives
• Lessons Learned

• CEO
• President
• CFO
• COO
• CNO
• CMO
• Medical staff director
• Director of physician relations
• Physician leader
• Quality director
• Service line director
• Physician practice administrator
• Hospital administrator
• Marketing director
• Planning and Business development