Is the Hospital System in Your Area Working for You? (Or Are You Working for Them?)
The Independent Provider’s Dilemma
As outpatient independent community providers, do you ever wonder if you are really working for the hospitals for free?
When we see patients every day, our primary worry is holistic care: Who else does this patient need to see? Do they need a referral to a specialist? Do they need urgent care or emergent care? Will they need surgery?
These questions drive our days. Will I need to pick the best hospital for that surgery or that patient population? Who will take care of my patient the best? Our patients rely on us to help make these important care decisions.
The One-Way Street of Referrals
Inevitably, we end up referring them to outpatient specialists, urgent cares, and hospitals. We make choices about where they should be admitted, where they should have a baby, and where they will get a surgery.
Here is the hard truth: When we make these decisions, we directly help other businesses grow. But are they returning the favor?
We rely on big hospital systems to keep the independent community physicians alive. We expect them to support us back, to help nurture our businesses, and to help us negotiate smarter contracts with rates that are fair and comparable to theirs. But too often, that support is missing.
Are You Negotiating Blindly?
How does Reveon Health help? We stop the guessing game. We allow you to compare your reimbursement rates directly against the systems you support.
You need to ask the hard questions:
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Are you being offered an option to join a provider group through their hospital system?
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Is that contract something they sponsored to genuinely help community providers?
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Do they have a group that is helping to manage and negotiate on the community provider’s behalf with regularity?
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The Big Question: Are they keeping community providers separate from their hospital system while negotiating these rates?
How much are they making on the patients you sent them, and how much are you making for your part in their care?
Data Is Your New Leverage
Here at Reveon, we provide you the data to interpret your position in the context of your market. You know the nuances of your community; we have the rates.
Would you have made a different decision on whether to join a provider group or a Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) knowing who does—or does not—support your business back?
Stop working in the dark. Sign up for Reveon today and find out if you are working for your hospital system for free.