John Fink

Principal

San Diego

Services Expertise:

Strategy
Finance
Operations
Technology

John has been consulting to healthcare organizations for nearly 25 years. His extensive experience with strategic and business planning, hospital/physician alignment, new business ventures, and mergers and acquisitions makes him a trusted partner to provider organizations that are seeking strategies for success amid a climate of uncertainty in the healthcare industry. John's clients appreciate his ability to effectively package communications to stakeholders and efficiently guide diverse groups of individuals as they make complex decisions. Over the past several years, John has focused on helping hospitals and physicians develop mutually beneficial financial relationships to achieve greater integration and improve their competitive position.

Thought Leadership: John Fink

Posts
March 02, 2020
CJR Is Here to Stay: Three Strategies for Keeping Your Service Line Relevant
On February 20, CMS issued a proposed rule to extend the CJR model by three years to December 2023. Health systems affected by this proposal should consider incorporating these three strategies into joint replacement programs.
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August 21, 2019
Building Off a Successful Comanagement Arrangement
Previously, we discussed how to improve underperforming comanagement arrangements. What about those arrangements that are succeeding and enhancing an organization’s quality, patient satisfaction, and costs: what’s next? Here are three possible strategies to help grow volume, improve profitability, and solidify alignment with physicians.
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August 14, 2019
Reviving Your Worn-Out Comanagement Arrangement
Comanagement arrangements have been with us for a long time, and their popularity as a hospital-physician alignment tactic intensified early this decade. Many organizations saw comanagement as a way to quickly improve the overall performance of certain service lines and be ready to perform better under bundled care and other value-based payment arrangements. For most, mission accomplished; quality has improved, patient satisfaction scores are better, and costs are better managed.
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January 03, 2019
Creating PSAs That Promote a Meaningful Hospital-Physician Bond
To be successful under value-based payment, a health system requires collaborative and binding relationships with affiliated physicians; the professional service agreements the organizations enters with the physicians should be designed to firmly establish such relationships.
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June 15, 2018
How to Implement Sticky PSAs
Take a deep dive into creating sticky PSAs, with actionable steps you can take at your organization.
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June 08, 2018
Optimizing Professional Services Agreements: They’re Meant to Be Sticky
PSAs provide hospitals and health systems a convenient and highly flexible mechanism to obtain services from physicians and achieve care coordination, access, and alignment goals. How can we make them sticky?
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Past Speeches
February 12, 2020 10:45 AM
Combining Gainsharing and Comanagement to Enhance Service Line Performance
ECG principal John Fink is speaking on combining gainsharing and comanagement to enhance service line performance.
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June 28, 2016 9:30 AM
Aligning with Physicians to Regionalize Services
This session will present strategies to work with physicians via regionalization to optimize the delivery of care to a population through efficient use of capital resources, optimal resource utilization, and reduced redundancies.
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June 11, 2015
Orthopedics Role in Population Management
This presentation focuses on the value of alignment, goals and objectives of each partner, options for alignment, and increasing value.
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June 11, 2014
The Fate of Physician-Owned Orthopedic ASCs: Strategies to Remain Independent and Partner with Hospitals
This presentation discusses considerations that will help define whether an ASC should focus its efforts on remaining independent or integrating with a hospital partner to improve its position in the market. In addition, it reviews strategies for both options.
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April 29, 2013
Understanding Alignment Strategies With Hospitals to Strengthen Your Orthopedic Practice
This presentation reviews the opportunities available to orthopedic surgeons from working more closely with hospitals and discusses how to structure new arrangements for mutual benefit.
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July 20, 2012
Engaging Physicians to Improve Care Coordination: Strategies for Both Large Systems and Individual Community Hospitals
This presentation presents highly effective strategies to engage physicians to examine, address, and reduce patient care variations and optimize utilization management.
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