Healthcare Management

Healthcare management in the private practice setting is growing exceedingly complicated. Physician groups struggle in an overly burdensome regulatory and legal environment that continues to stifle the business of medicine. Reimbursements continue to decline while costs continue to rise.

CGM understands the trends, demands, and pressures applied to clinicians in the practice of medicine. In the physician practice realm, CGM proudly offers the following non-exhaustive menu of services:

• Strategic Planning:
  • Mission/vision planning
  • Plan design, implementation, and tracking
• Turn-Key New Practice Start Up (from concept to “doors open”)
• Operations Management/Process Improvement:
  • Clinic flow/patient flow
  • Clinic protocols/risk mitigation
• Fee Schedule Analysis:
  • Managed care contracting
  • Fee review and assessment
• Billing Analysis & Cycle:
  • Check in/out protocols
  • Collections/accounts receivable planning
  • Insurance follow up
  • Financial controls
• Marketing & Promotions
  • Plan design/implementation/assessment
• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/Electronic Health Record (EHR)/Practice Management Systems:
  • Evaluating
  • Negotiating
  • Installing/implementing
• Overhead analysis/assessment
• Data mining:
  • To locate business opportunities
  • To prepare for “pay for performance”
  • To assure “care loop” is closed
• Management infrastructure evaluation/development:
  • Governance
  • Implement management structures
  • Reporting systems
  • Job functions/details
• Practice growth & feasibility studies
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Physician compensation development
• Ancillary services development
• Competitiveness assessment
• Efficiency studies

If there is a project or aspect of your business not listed above, or you have another project you’d like to embark upon, do contact us to inquire. If we don’t handle that particular project, we have resources nationally who may be able to assist you.

CGM covers the continuum from interim practice management to project specific/focused engagements and can craft an agreement that fits your individual practice needs.

Email us at info@castlegatemanagement.com.