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So, we often hear about AMC's coming in and low-balling PP groups, and offering some type of "value proposition".
What about an all MD/DO group, say of 15-20 anesthesiologists, coming in and taking over a flailing ACT model at some smaller to medium sized hospital system? Say an ACT model of lesser quality MD's "supervising" a bunch of malignant CRNA's whom basically have NEAR full autonomy in the day to day practice of anesthesia.
I KNOW these outfits exist. What about a group of younger (or not), hungry, and perhaps fed up, anesthesiologists coming in and offering a value proposition, which would likely include some level of compromise such as more call, longer hours, and less pay (the value proposition has to come from somewhere.......)?
This hospital system would benefit from an all physician group, and they could advertise as such. Billboards could read "at St. Joseph's, 100% of our anesthesia services are performed by physician anesthesiologists" or "Ask your surgeon if a nurse will be providing your anesthesia or a physician anesthesiologist" or "at St. Vincent's we feel you deserve the best anesthesia care available. Ask about our 100% physician run anesthesiology department".
Would YOU sign on to such an endeavor? Maybe the trade off would be greater autonomy in day to day practice, less CRNA headaches, more control of your destiny?
If you were debt free, would you work in such an environment for $300K??
How about 250K? 350K? I know it would depend on hours, call, and ultimate responsibility. Details would need to be worked out, but I'm sure that some of the trade offs would/could be coupled with some very real intrinsic rewards. This "system" would necessitate hard working, service oriented, people.
But, to how many of you does this CONCEPT reasonate?
What about an all MD/DO group, say of 15-20 anesthesiologists, coming in and taking over a flailing ACT model at some smaller to medium sized hospital system? Say an ACT model of lesser quality MD's "supervising" a bunch of malignant CRNA's whom basically have NEAR full autonomy in the day to day practice of anesthesia.
I KNOW these outfits exist. What about a group of younger (or not), hungry, and perhaps fed up, anesthesiologists coming in and offering a value proposition, which would likely include some level of compromise such as more call, longer hours, and less pay (the value proposition has to come from somewhere.......)?
This hospital system would benefit from an all physician group, and they could advertise as such. Billboards could read "at St. Joseph's, 100% of our anesthesia services are performed by physician anesthesiologists" or "Ask your surgeon if a nurse will be providing your anesthesia or a physician anesthesiologist" or "at St. Vincent's we feel you deserve the best anesthesia care available. Ask about our 100% physician run anesthesiology department".
Would YOU sign on to such an endeavor? Maybe the trade off would be greater autonomy in day to day practice, less CRNA headaches, more control of your destiny?
If you were debt free, would you work in such an environment for $300K??
How about 250K? 350K? I know it would depend on hours, call, and ultimate responsibility. Details would need to be worked out, but I'm sure that some of the trade offs would/could be coupled with some very real intrinsic rewards. This "system" would necessitate hard working, service oriented, people.
But, to how many of you does this CONCEPT reasonate?