PHYSICIAN EMPLOYMENT ASSESSMENT TOOL
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MARKET ASSESSMENT:
Total Score Opportunity = 9 Points
Do you know the community need for physician manpower?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you recruit to meet community need?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you have an established physician recruitment plan that is reviewed and updated on an annual basis?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you match annual budgeting to meet physician recruitment needs?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0pt.)
Do you recruit in reaction to immediate market circumstances/opportunities?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you make budgetary allowance to economically allow for immediate market opportunities?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you assess the market to determine best location for physician practices?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Is the general medical community in favor of the hospital employing physicians?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Is the only way that community needs will be met is if the hospital employs physicians?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT:
Total Score Opportunity = 19 Points
Does the Board understand the dynamics of hospitals/health systems employing physicians?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Does your management have the expertise to effectively direct physician practices?
Yes (2 pts.)
No (0 pt.)
Is your revenue cycle management conducted under hospital standards?
Yes (0 pt.)
No (2 pts.)
Do you have reporting capability to determine the financial performance of your employed physician network?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you have a governance structure to provide physicians self-direction?
Yes (2 pts.)
No (0 pt.)
Is the governance structure physician led?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you have operational or authority guidelines that delineate decision making responsibilities between physicians and administration?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do physicians provide direction in measures of clinical quality for the physician network?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Does the senior leadership of the hospital embrace the concept of physician employment?
Yes (2 pts.)
No (0 pt.)
Does the hospital CFO and finance department support the concept of physician employment?
Yes (2 pts.)
No (0 pt.)
Does executive leadership view the employed physicians as an extension of working with the medical staff?
Yes (0 pt.)
No (2 pts.)
Does the medical staff have involvement in peer review issues of the employed physician network?
Yes (0 pt.)
No (2 pts.)
RECRUITMENT:
Total Score Opportunity = 14 Points
Do you use a professional recruiting firm or internal recruiter to source your physicians?
Yes (1 pt.)
No (0 pt.)
Do you have a mechanism or standards to clear physician candidates for onsite visitation?
Yes (1 pt.)
