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    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 surveys offer market-specific data composed of compensation, production, and benefits ...

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    ECG Surveys

    • Physician and APP Compensation Survey
    • Pediatric Subspecialty Physician and APP Compensation Survey
    • Faculty Physician and APP Compensation Survey
    • Medical Group Cost and Infrastructure Survey
    • Risk-Based Contracting and Physician Compensation Survey
    • Physician Benefits and Perquisites Survey
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    Behavioral Health Strategy and Crisis Center Development

    Dignity Health–St. Rose Dominican Hospitals (DH-SRDH) engaged ECG as an advisory partner to support ongoing efforts to identify, evaluate, and design care workflows for behavioral

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    Improving Business Operations Processes

    In the process of addressing operational issues, ECG enabled Easterseals Northern California (ESNorCal), then known as Easterseals Bay Area, to transform its process improvement

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    Strategically Employing APPs in Ambulatory Care

    Healthcare organizations have been exploring ways to mitigate a gap in physician supply and demand in order to meet the increasing and shifting growth of needed care of an aging population.

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    Health Plan Valuation Part Three: Due Diligence Process

    Due to an increasing amount of consolidation among health plans, it is important not only to offer the correct purchase price but also to complete a thorough due diligence ...

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Katie Fellin

Senior Manager

Washington D.C.

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Services Expertise:

  • Strategy
  • Finance
  • Performance Transformation

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kfellin@ecgmc.com

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Education

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Master of Health Service Administration Degree

Certificate in Healthcare Outcomes Management

University of Kansas

Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Katie was one of ECG’s advisers and the primary driver of the development of the Illinois Partnership for Health (IPH), an accountable care entity created to care for the shared Managed Medicaid population across nine separate healthcare systems and 54 counties in Illinois. Katie exhibited extensive diplomacy and great facilitation skills, as well as high levels of professionalism and accountability throughout the application development and submission process. Katie was key in getting the nine unique systems to work collaboratively on this unique endeavor. Her network development experience, in addition to her thorough attention to detail, made her a formidable resource for the challenging role of guiding us through this unprecedented work. Without Katie’s involvement in the early stages, IPH may have never come to fruition.

—Dennis P. Hesch, Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer, Carle Health System

Katie is intensely focused on helping define and implement practical managed care strategies to position providers for long-term success. Her deep expertise in provider contracting and reimbursement enables her to identify immediate revenue enhancement opportunities through existing or new managed care arrangements as well as solutions to address payer operational challenges that often reduce expected reimbursement for providers.

Since joining ECG in 2008, Katie has conducted managed care reimbursement assessments and led contract negotiations with academic and nonacademic health systems; small and large, single- and multispecialty physician practices; skilled nursing facilities; and behavioral health providers, resulting in an average annual revenue enhancement of 5% to 15%. As the reimbursement market has shifted, Katie’s focus has broadened to support major health systems across the nation in the development of commercial, Medicare Advantage, and managed Medicaid payer contracting strategies. In addition, Katie has supported many providers and private equity firms in the completion of facility and professional black box analyses and the successful transition of payer contracts required as the result of provider mergers and acquisitions.

In recent years, the demand for behavioral health payer contracting support has increased dramatically, largely as a result of the opioid epidemic, demand for increased adolescent behavioral health services, and increased payer focus on controlling overall healthcare expenditures through enhanced behavioral healthcare management.Katie has supported behavioral health providers’ transition from out-of-network to in-network status with commercial payers and has helped negotiate commercial payer agreements for behavioral health providers across the country, including addiction medicine providers, autism therapy providers, and other various psychotherapy providers. Katie has also begun working with providers on identification of opportunities to integrate behavioral health services in a primary care setting.

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November 16, 2020

Two Treatment Journeys: Seeking Care During a Mental Health Crisis

Health systems must change the way they approach providing behavioral health services. Follow two

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Six Payer Contracting Challenges for Private Equity–Backed Healthcare Providers and How to Solve Them

PE-backed healthcare providers need to optimize their contracts to satisfy their owners, and most im

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Behavioral health providers must reevaluate their managed care strategies to ensure appropriate rei

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June 30, 2020

COVID-19: Federal Funding Available for Providers in Emerging Hot Spots

What steps should providers in emerging COVID-19 hot spots take to access all available federal supp

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June 17, 2020

Behavioral Health in the Spotlight: Disruption, Innovation, and New Challenges Ahead

Behavioral health has gained recognition as one of the most important issues in healthcare. Legislat

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April 20, 2020

Q&A: The CARES Act

Our team of experts created a document to help answer questions that arose during our April 9 discus

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Six Payer Contracting Challenges For Private Equity–Backed Healthcare Providers Web
July 16, 2020

Six Payer Contracting Challenges for Private Equity–Backed Healthcare Providers and How to Solve Them

PE-backed healthcare providers need to optimize their contracts to satisfy their owners, and most im

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October 30, 2013

Evaluating Your Organization's Operational Readiness for Health Exchange Marketplaces

By surveying the issues specific to your market, you can minimize the potential stumbling blocks and

Two Treatment Journeys Web
November 16, 2020

Two Treatment Journeys: Seeking Care During a Mental Health Crisis

Health systems must change the way they approach providing behavioral health services. Follow two

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July 08, 2020

Behavioral Health in the Spotlight: Optimizing Managed Care Contracting and Positioning for the Future

Behavioral health providers must reevaluate their managed care strategies to ensure appropriate rei

Covid 19 Funding For Hot Spots Web
June 30, 2020

COVID-19: Federal Funding Available for Providers in Emerging Hot Spots

What steps should providers in emerging COVID-19 hot spots take to access all available federal supp

Behavioral Health In The Spotlight Part 1 Web
June 17, 2020

Behavioral Health in the Spotlight: Disruption, Innovation, and New Challenges Ahead

Behavioral health has gained recognition as one of the most important issues in healthcare. Legislat

Cares Act Qa Web
April 20, 2020

Q&A: The CARES Act

Our team of experts created a document to help answer questions that arose during our April 9 discus

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March 27, 2020

Telehealth and COVID-19: Guidance for Behavioral Health Providers

What behavioral health organizations and providers need to know as they prepare to deliver care virt

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April 06, 2020

The CARES Act: Regulatory Implications and Next Steps

In this session we discuss the federal government's enactment of two major pieces of legislation pro

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March 10, 2016

Taking “Advantage” of the Changing Market – Exploring the Medicare Advantage Opportunity

This webinar is focused on providing an update on current Medicare Advantage market trends – both n

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April 29, 2013

Preparing for Health Insurance Exchanges: Strategic, Operational, and Financial Implications for Hospitals

This presentation focuses on key factors to consider when preparing your organization for these chan

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October 10, 2012

Development of ACOs and Value-Based Arrangements – Market Trends and Key Tenets of Successful Implementation

This session explores the types of value-based arrangements currently being pursued by providers and

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December 08, 2013

Future of the Musculoskeletal Service Line: What’s New in 2013 and Beyond?

This presentation explores the most important business and structural challenges to musculoskeletal

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Accountable Care Affiliation Models

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Preparing for Health Insurance Exchanges: Strategic, Operational, and Financial Implications for Hospitals

The implementation of health insurance exchanges (both public and private) will materially impact th

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