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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 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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    • Women's Services
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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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    Optimizing Ambulatory Strategy in a Consumer and Payer Driven Environment

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Laura Barrera

Senior Manager

San Diego

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Services Expertise:

  • Strategy
  • Finance
  • Performance Transformation

Contact

lbarrera@ecgmc.com

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management

The University of Southern California

Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Bachelor of Arts in Communication

Certifications

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Laura is a certified Lean Black Belt with over 10 years of experience in ambulatory operations, patient access, and strategy. Laura helps clients implement best practices and innovative solutions by combining her knowledge of healthcare with her training in Lean methodologies and human-centered design. Her grasp of IT systems, particularly the Epic platform, has been instrumental to the success of implementation and optimization projects. Clients value Laura’s ability to collaborate with executives, providers, and frontline staff to develop solutions that yield increased operational and financial efficiency, especially in a time of financial uncertainly brought on by the dynamic state of today’s healthcare environment.

At ECG, Laura has aided clients with driving operational performance from assessment to implementation. Examples of her efforts include optimizing patient appointment scheduling models to streamline workflows, improve access, and enable the use of technology to facilitate greater scheduling efficiency; redesigning care delivery models to expand access, optimize resources, and promote a seamless integration between in-person and virtual care; serving as an SME and facilitator for patient access, clinical operations, and patient engagement workflow design work groups as part of a multistate Epic implementation; and leading multidisciplinary teams through ambulatory clinic sprints aimed at improving patient access and stakeholder satisfaction.

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BlogOptimize Ambulatory Operations With These Three Change Management Techniques Web2
July 24, 2019

Optimize Ambulatory Operations with These Three Change Management Techniques

In a typical ambulatory care setting, the focus is on day-to-day workflow, and clinic teams are ofte

BlogReferral Management Web
December 19, 2018

Achieving Best Practice Operations in Referral Management

For many health systems, referral leakage may equate to millions of dollars in forgone revenue, as e

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December 05, 2018

Sprinting Your Clinic to Success

After a massive effort to integrate 18 clinics into a new health system—including the standardizatio

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March 09, 2016

Update on Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)

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Optimize Ambulatory Operations With These Three Change Management Techniques Web2
July 24, 2019

Optimize Ambulatory Operations with These Three Change Management Techniques

In a typical ambulatory care setting, the focus is on day-to-day workflow, and clinic teams are ofte

Referral Management Web
December 19, 2018

Achieving Best Practice Operations in Referral Management

For many health systems, referral leakage may equate to millions of dollars in forgone revenue, as e

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December 05, 2018

Sprinting Your Clinic to Success

After a massive effort to integrate 18 clinics into a new health system—including the standardizatio

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March 09, 2016

Update on Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)

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P: (617) 227-0100

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P: (858) 436-3220

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