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Exploring Critical Business and Legal Issues across the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industries
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Exploring Critical Business and Legal Issues across the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industries
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Looking Back at PPM/ASC 2018: What We Learned in Nashville

The health care field is evolving at light speed, adapting to changing patient, physician and payer expectations. This is particularly evident in the physician practice management (PPM) and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) industries. We gathered recently in Nashville, Tennessee for the 2018 Physician Practice Management & ASC Symposium to explore and discuss these changes – from what’s improved in the PPM industry since the bubble-burst of the late 1990s to the challenges that lie ahead.

We had more than 500 attendees at the conference – from PPM/ASC executives, private equity professionals and investment bankers to provider-side representatives and fellow attorneys. With so many knowledgeable minds in one place, there was no shortage of learning opportunities around the critical business, transactional and regulatory issues facing the PPM/ASC industries today.

We saw one overarching theme surface during both sessions: running a PPM or ASC is more like running a co-op than a business. Therefore, in order to deliver meaningful value, there needs to be an honest and reciprocal relationship between management and physicians. In other words, there needs to be collaboration and input from all parties.

With that, here are our five key takeaways for bringing value to a PPM/ASC practice:

  • Understand today’s physicians, not those from the ‘90s: Today’s physicians are younger and leave medical school with more debt, but they also expect a more comprehensive work-life balance than Gen Xers did. As a result, they may be willing to work for large, established practices instead [...]

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5 Key Developments in the ASC and Physician Practice Industries

At McDermott Will & Emery’s 2018 Physician Practice Management and ASC Symposium, some of the leading minds in the PPM and ASC fields gathered to discuss key issues and their thoughts on the future growth and direction of the interconnected ASC and PPM industries. Below are a few of the key takeaways from McDermott’s largest conference to date:

  1. The True Platform. Loose confederacies of physician practices do not equal a sophisticated and integrated platform. The most successful platforms have a developed infrastructure, a talented leadership team, a simple model and a unified vision to build a national/regional company focused on quality of care, patient satisfaction and physician engagement. Competition for those platforms is tough, and building those platforms from scratch requires time, capital, organization and patience.
  2. PPM Differentials. We asked the CEOs of national PPMs why today’s PPMs are different than the failed PPMs of the 1990s. They discussed several key differences, including a shifting physician mentality, difficulty in sustaining independent medical practices, patient dissatisfaction with health care, the shift towards value-based care, the management company’s emphasis on delivering value, and new governance structures/compensation models that encourage communication and alignment among stakeholders. Despite these differences, it is clear that there will be some winners and losers, and that PPMs with a clear growth strategy, a compelling vision, a thoughtful compliance infrastructure and an emphasis on patient satisfaction have the greatest likelihood of success.
  3. ASC Perspectives on the PPM Consolidation. We asked the CEOs of leading [...]

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