Digestive Diseases
Digestive diseases represent a compelling opportunity for alignment between physicians and hospitals due to:
- Fragmented services with limited interdisciplinary coordination among clinical specialists.
- Substantial chronic care management needs in disease groups, requiring alignment between primary care and multiple subspecialties.
- Cumbersome reimbursement structures that do not encourage collaboration or alignment.
- Increased demand to recruit digestive disease physicians, yet limited supply.
- High capital requirements associated with advanced equipment.
Healthcare organizations have the opportunity to overcome these challenges by redesigning the organization, operations, and incentives associated with the delivery of digestive disease-related services and facilitate greater alignment between hospitals and physicians. ECG’s experience in assisting organizations in developing and implementing innovative approaches to service line organization and management for digestive disease services enables us to help you realize opportunities to improve hospital/physician relations, administrative effectiveness, operational efficiency, and patient experiences.
