HFMA | Advanced Practice Providers Optimize Efficiency and Improve Financial Performance
Advanced practice providers (APPs) play a critical role in transforming care delivery
With a looming physician shortage and an ever-increasing population of patients, access to primary care and specialty providers remains a chief concern for health care organizations nationwide. To help meet this demand and avoid potential disruption to quality, service and cost, many hospitals and health systems are rapidly expanding the number employed APPs.
To support the critical role APPs play in transforming care delivery, improving performance and helping to achieve key financial results, organizations must undertake a deliberate and strategic review of the scope of practice, care team role, levels of engagement, governance, and compensation and payment structures for all APPs.
Featured in a recent edition of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s CFO Forum, learn how SullivanCotter partnered with Phoenix Children’s Hospital to develop a comprehensive APP workforce and utilization strategy aligned with organizational goals and objectives – helping to improve overall financial performance while enhancing patient access, quality of care, and APP retention and satisfaction.