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The Summit Health Experience with Physician Integration Healthcare Executive Forum March 23, 2017

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The Summit Health Experience with Physician

Integration Healthcare Executive Forum

March 23, 2017

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SUMMIT HEALTH – OVERVIEW

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Corporate Structure

58%

12%

5%

24%

1% Expenses

ChambersburgHospital

WaynesboroHospital

ChambersburgHealth Services

Summit PhysicianServices

Himelfarb SurgeryCenter

66%

14%

4%

14% 2%

Net Patient Service Revenue

ChambersburgHospital

WaynesboroHospital

ChambersburgHealth Services

Summit PhysicianServices

Himelfarb SurgeryCenter

58% 15%

27%

Employees

ChambersburgHospital

WaynesboroHospital

SPS/CHS/HSC

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Services and Locations

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Workforce

• Employees = 3,500 • FTEs = 2,755 • Affiliated Physicians = 640 (332 “local” physicians) • Employed Providers = 260

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PHYSICIAN INTEGRATION APPROACHES – OVERVIEW

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Factors Driving Integration

• Market Share Control • Declining Reimbursement for All • Increasing Administrative Complexity • Increasing Risk for All • Increasing Costs for All • Provider Consolidation • Physician Aversion to Risk • Physician Lifestyle Objectives • Physician Disinterest in Entrepreneurship • Access to Capital

Source: Halley Consulting Group

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Common Integration Challenges

• Win/Lose Scenario • Form Before Function • Hospital-Centric Vision • Absent or Conflicting Objectives • Personal Agendas/Self Interest • Disagreement Over Tactics • Accountability for Performance • Historical Animosity

Source: Halley Consulting Group

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Hospital-Physician Integration Strategies

• Hospitalists and Professional Service Agreements • Compensating Physicians for Time Spent in

Improvement Activities • Sharing Performance Data with Physicians • Gain Sharing • Management Services Organizations • Joint Ventures • Integrated Ambulatory EHR

Source: HFMA

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Hospital-Physician Integration Strategies

• Co-Management • Physician Leadership Academy • Organizing Medical Groups into a Single Group • Patient-Centered Medical Home • Employed Physician Compensation Methods • Clinically Integrated Network • Population Health Management

Source: HFMA

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Physicians’ Considerations in Hospital Choice • Strategy • Strategy Execution • Market Position • Capital Resources • Service Levels • Market Management • System Relationship(s) • Financial Performance • Information Technology

Source: Halley Consulting Group

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Evolving Alignment Models

• Accountable Care Organization (ACO) • Patient-Centered Medical Home • Quality Collaborative • Clinically Integrated Network (CIN)

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Precursors to Clinical Integration

• Call Coverage • Clinical Co-Management/Service Line • Equity Model • Foundation Model • Independent Practice Association • Joint Venture

Source: Max Reiboldt

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Precursors to Clinical Integration

• Management Services Organization • Medical Directorship • Physician Employment or Staff Model • Physician Hospital Organization • Physician Recruitment • Professional Services Agreement

Source: Max Reiboldt

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SUMMIT HEALTH – HISTORY

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History – Differentiators

• Earlier to Market – Ahead of HMO Curve • Vision to Establish Market and Integrate to Health

System – Versus HMO Purposes Only • Establish Pipelines for Future

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History – 1993

• Cumberland Valley Medical Services (CVMS) Established – 2 Physician Practices

• Focused on Primary Care (Family and Pediatric Medicine)

• Main Goal – Recruitment of Primary Care Physicians to Franklin County

• 6 Primary Care Practices by 1996

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History – 1999

• Summit Surgery Center Established • Main Goal – Create Joint Venture with Community

Surgeons

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History – 2004

• Cumberland Valley Specialty Services (CVSS) Established

• Surgical Based Practices – Orthopedics and General Surgery

• Established to Develop a Separate Company from the Family Physician Group

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History – 2010

• Summit Physician Services (SPS) Established • CVMS and CVSS Merged to Form SPS • New Board of Directors • Hired a Medical Director, CMIO and 2 Directors • Developed a Physician Advisory Council • Implemented an Organizational-Wide Electronic Medical

Record

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Current – 2017

• Multispecialty Group • Physician and Administrative Dyad Leadership Teams • Serving All of Franklin County – Growing Market in

Southern Tier • Organizational-Wide Standard Work and Processes

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Driving Forces – Health System

• Medical Staff Recruitment and Development • Capture Market Share • Improve Care Processes and Quality Outcomes • Increase Physician Loyalty

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Driving Forces – Providers

• Stabilize Income • Decrease Call Coverage • Increase Outpatient Presence • Decrease Office Overhead • Pay Off Student Debt • Increase Access to Capital and Technology

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KEYS TO SUCCESS

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Imperatives

High functioning, truly integrated medical groups have six characteristics: 1) Physician Leadership Hierarchy 2) Common Infrastructure 3) Alignment with System Goals and Values

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Imperatives (continued) 4) Operating at Benchmark Productivity and Efficiency 5) Evolving Physicians to Lead Patient Care Teams 6) Compensation Systems that Reward Individual and

Group Performance ‒ Productivity ‒ Quality ‒ Service ‒ Citizenship

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Physician Leadership Hierarchy

• Traditional Organized Medical Staff – VPMA/CMO

• SPS Leadership Structure – Chief Medical Officer for Physician Services

• Lead Physicians – Operational Directors

• Site Managers • Corporate Expansion of Physician Leaders

– 3 VP’s on Senior Management – Paid Medical Director Structure

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Common Infrastructure

• Electronic Health Record • Infrastructure Solutions

– Human Resources – Revenue Cycle – Policies – Standard Operation Solutions – Lean Management

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Alignment With System Goals/Values

• Physician Culture Change • Adopting Evidence-Based Medicine

– Clinical Guidelines Committee (SPS) – Medical Director Council Clinical Improvement

Council (SH)

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Productivity, Efficiency and Operational Improvement • Sharing of Operational Data with Providers to Engage

Them in Improvements • Ongoing Discussions about Financial Integration of

Providers, Hospitals and Health System • Reducing Clinical Variation • Reducing Overhead via Economies of Scale as Part of

the Health System • Supporting the Revenue Cycle and Corporate

Compliance

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Physician-Led Patient Care Teams

• Patient Centered Medical Homes • Ambulatory Flow Teams • Outpatient Care Coordination • Inpatient Unit-Based Teams • Possible Future Hospitalist-Led Unit Teams • Medical Director of Patient-Family Care

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Evolved Compensation System

• Salary vs. Productivity Ratio Individualized • Aligned Incentives • Resources Available for Leadership

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Size and Scale Matter

• Population Health • Patient Centered Medical Home • Spread Fixed Cost • IT Investments • Aggregation of Practices to Drive Down Cost and

Increase Quality

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Payers Shifting Risk to Providers

• MACRA • Value Based Purchasing • Bundles • Accountable Care Organizations

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Contacts • John Massimilla

COO – Chambersburg Hospital [email protected]

• Niki Showe Sr. VP, Physician Services – Summit Health [email protected]

• Dr. Frank Mozdy VP & CMO – Summit Physician Services [email protected]

• Kimberly Rzomp VP & CFO – Summit Health [email protected]