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    Featured Surveys

    Physician and APP Compensation Survey

    ECG Management Consultants continues to expand its surveys to include independent, integrated, and academic provider ...

    There is no more rigorous or accurate benchmarking resource for provider compensation planning. Our surveys offer market-specific data composed of compensation, production, and benefits information ...

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    Pediatric Subspecialty Physician and APP Compensation Survey

    The industry’s only compensation survey dedicated to understanding the unique data needs of the pediatric market.

    The industry’s only compensation survey dedicated to understanding the unique data needs of the pediatric market. Our survey provides an in-depth review of pediatric subspecialty market trends, ...

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    Faculty Physician and APP Compensation Survey

    Our faculty physician and app compensation survey specifically addresses the data needs of our academic partners in order to ...

    There is no more rigorous or accurate benchmarking resource for academic provider compensation planning.Our faculty survey offers market-specific compensation, production, and benefits information ...

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    ECG Surveys

    • Physician and APP Compensation Survey
    • Pediatric Subspecialty Physician and APP Compensation Survey
    • Faculty Physician and APP Compensation Survey
    • Advanced Practice Provider Compensation Survey
    • Medical Group Performance Survey
    • Value-Based Contracting and Physician Compensation Survey
    • Physician Benefits and Perquisites Survey
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    Aligning Physicians and Enhancing the Value of Imaging Services

    By optimizing radiology services, health systems can achieve measurable, sustainable improvements in their operational and financial performance. Transitioning from unorganized,

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    Case Studies

    Coordinating a Contract Approach for Improved Governance and Integration for the Anesthesia Service Line

    When optimally structured, anesthesia services lead measurable and sustainable improvements to a health system’s operational and financial performance. By transitioning from

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    • Health Plan Consulting

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    Preparing Your Public Hospital for Success During a Downturn

    Deleveraging and reducing costs through automation and operational efficiencies should be priorities of public hospitals, and efforts should focus on sustainable solutions that generate long-term value.

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    ECG Summary of March 2023 MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy

    MedPAC’s outstanding recommendations focus on many of the issues it noted in the most recent report—the need to fully account for MA coding intensity, improve encounter data ...

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    APP Compensation Planning Trends: Responding to Current Market Dynamics
    Should Our Hospital Offer Ownership in ASCs to Our Employed Physicians?
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Jennifer Gingrass

Partner

Chicago

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Services Expertise:

  • Strategy
  • Performance Transformation
  • Finance

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[email protected]

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Education

Rush University

Master of Science in Health Systems Management

University of Notre Dame

Bachelor of Science, with an emphasis on Science-Business

Jennifer’s clients rely on her forward-thinking, innovative approaches to physician practice issues, ambulatory operations, process redesign, and medical group–hospital integration. For more than 15 years, Jennifer has worked closely with leaders of physician practices, hospitals, and health systems to help their organizations respond to challenges in the healthcare industry and position them for long-term success. Her practice concentrates on the organizational, strategic, operational, and financial alignment between large multispecialty group practices and affiliated health systems to achieve care delivery integration. Jennifer has served as an interim executive at a 2,000-physician management services organization, leading large-scale operational/IT changes across employed physician groups.



Jennifer leads our Patient Access practice area and has served as the lead consultant on access engagements at Sutter Health, Advocate Health Care, UC Health, MedStar Health, and Adventist Health Central Valley Network. She has written numerous articles and given many talks on the topics of patient access and contact center development. Her article “Changing the Channel: Strategies for Expanding Patient Access” was published in hfm inApril 2015. She also delivered a speech titled “Easier Access, Improved Operations—Centralized Scheduling Comes of Age” at the Annual Conference of Healthcare Call Centers in June 2016.

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EventsGpin May 2019 Web
February 28, 2019

2019 GPIN Semi-Annual Conference

ECG is pleased to continue the partnership with the Group Practice Improvement Network as sponsors o

Webinars2018 Cost Survey 1200 X650 Webmeta
February 25, 2018

Physician Enterprise Performance Improvement Trends

Have you struggled to find appropriate benchmarks for the employed physician network in your organiz

Blog2018 Cost Survey 650 X380 Web
February 23, 2018

Join the 2018 National Medical Group Cost and Infrastructure Survey

Our medical group cost and infrastructure survey supplies participants with data, analysis, and insi

EventsEvent Beckers Ceo November 2018 Web
January 26, 2018

Becker's Hospital Review 7th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable

ECG is sponsoring at the Becker’s Hospital Review 7th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable.

ArticlesArticle Plj 5 Inescapable Issues Web
June 14, 2017

5 Inescapable Issues for Medical Groups

Making clinically integrated networks truly effective will require physicians and administrators to

ArticlesArticle Ecg Harnessing The Power March 2017 Web
February 28, 2017

Harnessing The Power of Your Physician Network Through Centralized Referral Management

Current processes for managing patient referrals are preventing health systems from providing coor

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Consumer Oriented Healthcare Delivery Web
April 22, 2022

Consumer-Oriented Healthcare Delivery Is No Longer Optional

Demand for more streamlined access and better healthcare experiences is here to stay. Here's how you

Article Plj 5 Inescapable Issues Web
June 14, 2017

5 Inescapable Issues for Medical Groups

Making clinically integrated networks truly effective will require physicians and administrators to

Article Ecg Harnessing The Power March 2017 Web
February 28, 2017

Harnessing The Power of Your Physician Network Through Centralized Referral Management

Current processes for managing patient referrals are preventing health systems from providing coor

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April 10, 2015

Changing the Channel: Strategies for Expanding Patient Access

Improving patient access requires new strategies for care delivery.

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April 01, 2015

Physician Compensation: Your 2015 Organizational Goals Depend On It

The day-to-day actions of physicians are among the most critical drivers of clinical quality and ef

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September 15, 2014

Breaking Down Barriers to Care: Strategies for Expanding Patient Access

Understand the importance of implementing innovative patient access strategies in an evolving heal

2022 Cost Survey 650 X380 Web
August 16, 2022

Join the 2022 National Medical Group Performance Survey

Our survey supplies participants with data, analysis, and insight related to direct and indirect ove

2018 Cost Survey 650 X380 Web
February 23, 2018

Join the 2018 National Medical Group Cost and Infrastructure Survey

Our medical group cost and infrastructure survey supplies participants with data, analysis, and insi

Ecg Blog Rethinking Access Full Size
March 02, 2016

The Patient Will See You Now: Rethinking Access in a Consumer-Driven Care Model

The traditional approach to access in the healthcare system has been to simply allow patients to wai

14M09D16 JKG KMK Breaking-Down-Barriers
December 03, 2014

Breaking Down Barriers: Rethinking Patient Access Strategies

To improve patient access, health systems and provider organizations must think beyond traditional c

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August 28, 2014

Achieving Organizational Strategies Through Physician Compensation

Financial incentives are an effective mechanism for aligning behavior, and at a time when physician

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July 25, 2014

Patient Contact Centers: Much More Than Glorified Switchboards

In the new healthcare environment, health systems and provider groups need to find ways to break dow

Rueters Event Web
August 23, 2022

Reuters Total Health 2022

ECG is proud to be a platinum and exclusive sponsor for Reuters Total Health’s CEO Day. ECG will be

Think Tank Event Web
March 29, 2022

Future of Healthcare Think Tank

Join Jennifer Gingrass and Asif Shah Mohammed at the Future of Healthcare Think Tank for C-Vision In

Gpin May 2019 Web
February 28, 2019

2019 GPIN Semi-Annual Conference

ECG is pleased to continue the partnership with the Group Practice Improvement Network as sponsors o

Event Beckers Ceo November 2018 Web
January 26, 2018

Becker's Hospital Review 7th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable

ECG is sponsoring at the Becker’s Hospital Review 7th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable.

The New Ambulatory Care Delivery Model Web
April 24, 2020

The New Ambulatory Care Delivery Model: A Look Within and Beyond the Pandemic

This discussion with physician leaders offers real-time insights and candid perspectives that can he

2018 Cost Survey 1200 X650 Webmeta
February 25, 2018

Physician Enterprise Performance Improvement Trends

Have you struggled to find appropriate benchmarks for the employed physician network in your organiz

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November 11, 2014

The Next Evolution of Patient Access

This webinar provides an overview of the steps that health systems are taking to improve access to t

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October 16, 2013

Optimizing Performance Within the Physician Enterprises

A major conundrum in the development of an integrated health system is that creating an efficient an

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June 23, 2021

Ambulatory Care Transformation: Consumers Won't Wait

The increased importance of the ambulatory enterprise has required organizations to rethink how they

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