As risk is shifted to the provider under value-based reimbursement, physician alignment with the health system is becoming more frequent. Guidehouse provides important support for physician strategies and advisory services, including a broad continuum of physician-affiliation relationships with hospitals and health systems.

We have helped physicians and healthcare organizations throughout the U.S. develop, evaluate, and improve mutually beneficial relationships. The main goal is to ensure that these relationships are founded on respect for physicians as essential clinical and business partners in the delivery of healthcare services. Our services include:

• Physician affiliation strategy and business planning
• Physician services contracting and negotiation assistance 
• Medical group mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures 
• Physician network development planning 
• Practice valuations and assessments 
• Physician leadership, governance, and communications planning 
• Physician alignment consultant
• Medical leadership/directorship program assessment 
• Marketing and communications 
• Cultural integration

We provide important support and advisory services for physician strategies across the broad continuum of physician organizations—from independent practices to employed physicians and every affiliation in between.

• Shared mission, vision, and values
• Physician practice objectives 
• Managed care capabilities/initiatives 
• Clinical efficiency and effectiveness goals 
• Operational efficiency and effectiveness initiatives 
• Accessibility of provider services
• Strategic planning retreats
• Governance and leadership evaluation