Hospital-Based Specialty Practices Bring Us Closer to the Patient and Hospital

Our hospital-based status provides stronger physician alignment, better communication, and collaboration of care, resulting in lower costs, better service, improved outcomes, and increased satisfaction.

Services

Orthopedic Surgery

It has become much more difficult for hospitals to negotiate an equitable and shared vision for call with the orthopedic medical staff. The burden of call is much higher for orthopedics due to the volume of patients in the emergency department and the increased follow-up demands. We can convert the burden and cost of emergency department call into a valuable strategic asset. Our system complements local practices and contributes to the hospital’s strategic goals.

  • 24/7 physician coverage
  • Strong on-site physician leadership and collaboration
  • Inpatient and outpatient surgeries
  • Follow-up clinic
  • Consults and Rounding
  • Billing, coding, and collections of professional fees
  • Proven infrastructure and support of practice
  • Plus—all surgeries, ancillaries, and professional fees stay in the hospital
View white paper of our orthopedic surgery model

Our practice structure is similar in all of our services. The staffing, deliverables, and scope of care can be customized to address your hospital’s needs.

If you are interested in learning more about how Surgical Colleagues can assist you with your Orthopedic Surgery service needs, please contact us today!

Acute Care and Trauma Surgery

Surgical Colleagues provides a stable team of dedicated, board-certified general surgeons with the skills and experience commensurate with the hospital’s designation, volume, and market demographics. The practice is led by an onsite medical director and supported by Surgical Colleagues' proven infrastructure and operations team. This minimizes stress and simplifies the practice environment.

We provide 24/7 coverage to ensure a quick response to surgical patients in the emergency department. Our dedicated surgeons collaborate with hospitals to deliver optimal care and alignment with established goals and performance metrics. This scope of care includes post-op care, hospital-wide consults, rounding, discharges, and global follow-up care in an outpatient clinic.

If you are interested in learning more about how Surgical Colleagues can assist you with your Acute Care and Trauma Surgery service needs, please contact us today!

Neurosurgery

Surgical Colleagues has developed a new model for neurosurgical practice management to address market challenges and benefit constituents.

Many of our hospital partners need assistance in meeting their expanded neurosurgery needs or physician turnover. We are a more engaged physician partner that can provide superior neurosurgery call coverage and valuable specialty practice solutions to impact service, market share, and financial performance. All revenues from our practices stay in the hospital to offset our costs. The impact we can have on the "Enterprise" value of your neurosurgery service line far outweighs our costs.

In collaboration with an experienced and innovative neurosurgeon group, we have designed a unique model to produce recruiting, retention, alignment, and practice advantages. Practice design is tailored to hospital designation, volume, patient acuity, and desired deliverables. The traditional call models are giving way to a more focused approach by dedicated surgeons to improve outcomes, patient experience, and optimize ED contributions.

Our scope of service entails experienced neurosurgeons, strong onsite leadership, follow-up clinic, support staff, proven infrastructure, and best practices. We assume responsibility for emergent and unassigned patients presenting to the ED, admitted patients, consults, rounding, and discharges. We refer all elective patients to the local neurosurgeons.

Many community hospitals may have a solo neurosurgeon on their medical staff and need additional help to ensure continuity in coverage and care. We can provide supplemental coverage to augment an existing practice to improve patient access.

View white paper of our neurosurgical model
View our neurosurgical flyer
If you are interested in learning more about how Surgical Colleagues can assist you with your Neurosurgery service needs, please contact us today!

Elective Practice Integration

We have designed several options to address different challenges and can customize our models to meet your unique needs. Integrating elective practices into our call models leverages existing infrastructure and overhead to improve our VALUE. This unique approach provides numerous advantages:

  • Improved community access to surgical specialists
  • Economies of scale via shared clinic space and support staff
  • Recruiting and retention benefits (Call team takes practice call weekends)
  • Practice revenue offsets ED call stipend and improves hospital bottom line
  • Better care collaboration/coordination improves costs and outcomes
  • Stronger physician alignment, performance, and accountability

Call us for an integrated hospital-based emergent and elective practice consultation.

If you are interested in learning more about how Surgical Colleagues can assist you with your Elective Practice Integration service needs, please contact us today!

Gastroenterology Practice Management and Innovative Staffing Solutions

The competition for Gastroenterologists has increased substantially, especially those with ERCP and Endo-Ultrasound Certification. Gastroenterologists are looking for equity in ASCs/Endoscopy Centers or joining larger group practices to benefit from partnership tracks. The traditional Gastroenterology practice models are also being replaced by group or private equity models that have the resources and capital to invest in technology and infrastructure to optimize outcomes, costs, and reimbursement.

Surgical Colleagues has redesigned the Gastroenterology practice model to be more competitive and attractive to physicians that wish to maintain their independence by offering less risk and stress through our innovative practice management models.

Recruiting Advantages

  • Innovative, flexible staffing models that improve quality of life
  • Practice management best practice expertise that allows the physician to focus on patient care, while Surgical Colleagues’ manages operations
  • Offer includes competitive compensation, metric bonuses, full benefits, vacation, CME, and malpractice insurance
  • Relocation and student loan repayment are negotiable

Hospital Benefits

  • Improved recruiting and retention benefits
  • Stronger physician alignment
  • Greater accountability for performance improvement/quality metric outcomes
  • Ability to curb outmigration, thereby strengthening referral sources

Patients

  • Improved communication and service
  • Increased availability of emergent care services
  • Enhanced access to services

Scope of practice

  • Acute and Ambulatory surgery
  • ED call coverage
  • Outpatient practice hours
  • Hospital patient rounding/consults
  • Engagement with local primary care referring providers
If you are interested in learning more about how Surgical Colleagues can assist you with your Gastroenterology service needs, please contact us today!

Urology Recruitment and Practice Management Expertise

Surgical Colleagues offers one of the only full-service Urology practice models in the country. We are a partner you can trust to deliver better results. We have the proven ability to recruit board-certified Urologists to fulfill your staffing needs in a 1:4 coverage model, enhanced by our innovative recruiting strategies, staffing models, best practices, and key infrastructure.

WHY CHOOSE SURGICAL COLLEAGUES?

  • Surgical and medical operational expertise (pioneers in the development of Specialty Hospitalist services and private practice management)
  • Innovative recruiting strategies and staffing models provide quality of life benefits and better physician satisfaction
  • Our practice management expertise enables physicians to focus on providing the highest quality of care from initial diagnosis to innovative treatment, utilizing advanced urological techniques to enhance outcomes
  • Strong physician leadership and alignment focused on your goals
  • Innovative call models to eliminate pay-for-call stipends
  • No conflicts of interest
  • Unmatched accountability for performance through risk-based contracting
  • Regional and corporate support of the program to ensure success
Let us show you the difference a more focused practice can have on your bottom line. Please contact us today!

Be a Part of Our Team

We’re currently looking for physicians to be a part of our team. Once people join our team, they fall in love with our unique system that includes attractive compensation, malpractice insurance, professional fee billing, and practice management expertise. Contact us for more information about our current openings.

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