Recently accepted the professional contract in a hospital-based practice. I have only worked in a freestanding center where generating referrals was mainly up to me (dinners, bars, sporting events, strip clubs (seriously) etc.). Wasn't too hard to build my practice as the only other rad onc in town wasn't very well liked. The area where I will be expanding into, however, has a rad onc in a freestanding setting who is well-liked. I'm wondering how I can use the hospital to my advantage. Particularly, are there "referral pathways" the hospital can institute to guarantee referrals to me? For example, can I somehow be linked into the breast center, imaging center, or pathology such that any new cancer diagnosis made in the hospital can be run through me (without violating HIPAA)? If not, any other arrangements you guys are familiar with? The administration at the hospital is pretty clueless about these things and is basically relying on me.