Services

The Dochterman Group can provide you with solutions to the following (click to expand):

Business Planning & Leadership

  • Strategic business planning and development
  • Mission statements and goal setting
  • Communication planning and implementation
  • New practice start-ups
  • Practice mergers
  • Negotiating new provider contracts
  • Governance (how do you act as a partnership)
  • Physician team building
  • Leadership executive coaching
  • Physician buy-in/out support
  • Corporate compliance and risk management

Practice Management

  • Improving workflow and operational efficiency
  • Financial performance assessment
  • Billing process assessment
  • Revenue cycle analysis
  • Third party payor performance analysis
  • Staffing assessment – do you have right staff? Are the right people doing the right work? Is staff training meeting current needs?
  • Staff development to encourage performance at optimum levels human resources assessment – employee handbooks, performance evaluations
  • Recruiting, selecting and hiring new providers
  • Physician compensation arrangements
  • NCQA medical practice recognition for: Patient-Centered Medical Home
  • Building the Patient-Centered Medical Home
  • Patient satisfaction assessments – including “secret shopper” services
  • Same-day access acheduling
  • Telephone system management & optimization
  • PQRI & CCIP optimiziation
  • Provider contracting and credentialing
  • Clinical workflow & efficiency assessment
  • Quality indicators assessment
  • Patient flow/throughput assessment
  • Chronic disease management optimization
  • Planning & implementation for systematic population-based care

Marketing

  • Building excellence in customer service
  • Strategic and tactical marketing
  • Brand building and corporate identity

Information Technology

  • EHR planning, implementation, & optimization
  • Meaningful use assessment & financial impact analysis
  • Hitech Act (ARRA)
  • Website development/hosting