Healthcare Practice Management Insights & Strategy
Practical perspectives on the business of healthcare
Healthcare is changing rapidly. Physician practices are navigating increasing operating complexity, evolving reimbursement models, physician recruitment challenges, consolidation, private equity investment, changing relationships with hospitals and health systems, and an increasingly sophisticated healthcare marketplace. At the same time, physicians continue to face many of the same fundamental questions:
- How do I build a stronger practice?
- How should I grow?
- Should I remain independent?
- How do I prepare for a future transition?
- What is my practice worth?
- Should I consider a partnership, joint venture, MSO, or sale?
ABISA’s Insights provide practical perspectives on these and other issues affecting physician practices and healthcare organizations.
What You’ll Find Here
ABISA’s Insights are designed to help physicians, healthcare executives, investors, and practice owners better understand the business and strategic issues shaping healthcare. Topics include:
Physician Practice Strategy
Practical considerations for building, managing, growing, and strengthening physician-owned practices.
Practice Management
Perspectives on operations, financial performance, physician productivity, staffing, revenue cycle, and organizational structure.
Physician Partnerships
Insights into physician buy-ins, buy-outs, ownership structures, compensation, governance, and partnership transitions.
Transactions & M&A
Perspectives on practice sales, acquisitions, transaction preparation, due diligence, and post-transaction considerations.
Medical Practice Valuation
Thoughts on practice valuation, transaction economics, ownership interests, and factors that can influence practice value.
MSOs & Healthcare Management
Perspectives on management services organizations, physician alignment, administrative infrastructure, and healthcare operating models.
Healthcare Investment
Insights relevant to investors evaluating physician practices and healthcare opportunities.
Joint Ventures
Perspectives on physician-hospital partnerships, healthcare joint ventures, governance, economics, and long-term alignment.
Exit & Succession Planning
Considerations for physicians preparing for retirement, ownership transitions, succession, or a future sale.
Insights for Physician Owners
Physician ownership brings opportunities—and responsibilities—that can extend well beyond clinical medicine. Physician owners may need to make decisions involving:
- Growth
- Recruitment
- Compensation
- Partnerships
- Capital investment
- New locations
- Ancillary services
- Practice valuation
- Succession
- M&A
- Independence
ABISA’s physician-focused Insights address these decisions from a business and operational perspective.
Insights for Healthcare Executives
Healthcare executives face a different set of challenges. Hospitals, health systems, MSOs, and other healthcare organizations increasingly need to understand how physician practices operate and how physician relationships affect strategy. Topics may include:
- Physician alignment
- Practice operations
- Joint ventures
- Service-line strategy
- MSO structures
- Growth
- Financial performance
- Governance
- Strategic partnerships
Insights for Healthcare Investors
Investing in physician practices requires more than understanding a financial statement. Investors also need to understand:
- Physician productivity
- Compensation
- Practice operations
- Revenue cycle
- Referral relationships
- Staffing
- Market dynamics
- Physician retention
- Growth opportunities
- Integration challenges
ABISA’s investment-related Insights examine these issues from an operating and practice-management perspective.
A Practical Perspective
ABISA’s Insights are grounded in experience working with physician practices and healthcare organizations. The objective is not to provide theoretical commentary. It is to address the practical questions that arise when physicians and healthcare executives have to make real decisions involving people, money, operations, ownership, and strategy. That perspective is particularly important in healthcare because a decision that looks straightforward financially can have significant implications for physicians, employees, patients, and the organization.
Have a Healthcare Strategy Question?
The right strategy depends on the circumstances of the organization. If you are facing a significant decision involving your practice, physician partnership, growth strategy, transaction, MSO relationship, joint venture, or succession plan, ABISA can provide an experienced outside perspective.