Management Services Consulting

Management Services Consulting: Unique expertise from OneSourceMed®

Physicians recognize the need to assess patient flow, staff responsibilities and technology to maximize productivity.

OneSourceMed® is one of the largest healthcare business services organizations in the world, comprised of seasoned professionals with a commitment to excellence and high ethical standards. Our staff can help identify needs and improve the performance of a practice.

 

Management Services - Products and Services:

  • OSM SmartStart — Proven methods for physicians starting a new practice or joining a group
  • Joining an Existing Practice — A systematic approach for physicians joining an existing medical practice
  • Physician Transitions — Restructuring of the sponsored model to private practice. Phased movement away from the sponsored "employed model" to private practice or another career alternative.
  • Consulting — Though independent practices have demonstrated competence-delivering quality medical services and operating a business, many physicians and managers continue to express the need for assistance and relief from some of the daily practice pressures and risks.
  • Operations — Tools and materials needed for day to day operations of the medical practice

Physicians would like to improve reimbursement from managed care plans. They’d prefer tighter management of their accounting and payroll functions. They want a plan for growth. Most of all, they need a resource to help accomplish these goals — OneSourceMed®. Read more about our other services:

Practice Management

Meeting patient needs while responding to financial, staff, liability and regulatory issues is becoming more and more challenging. OneSourceMed® provides monthly practice management by our experienced Area Practice Management (APM) team. Services include:

Technology

  • OSM Web Report - provides a secure, user-friendly Web site for physician clients to access reports from their own system at their discretion
  • Excel-based financial health report card - a monthly snapshot of the financial condition of a practice
  • OSM Web budget - complete physician practice budget preparation application accessible via Internet and supported by a practice-savvy OSM accounting staff
  • Interventions – To address urgent issues or focus on specific problems
  • Evaluations – Focusing on data assessment, contractual issues, HIPAA compliance, GAP analysis and other hot spots
  • Practice support and employee training

  • Interactive Practice™ (IP) – A Web-based online reference tool that provides valuable information to help improve the way a practice is run. It allows users to search for anything from job descriptions, to policies, to sample forms. It also documents common processes involving physician practices and the OneSourceMed® service center, which assists with training. Interactive Practice™ (IP) also includes links to OSM Core™ documents, sites, training programs and materials, and other resources, and is updated on a regular basis to include the most current information.

Managed Care Services and Consulting

OneSourceMed® Managed Care Services help physicians understand the implication of their managed care contracts by analyzing payor fee schedules and explaining contract terms and business implications. All this helps ensure accurate reimbursement while reducing administrative time. Services, which are available either on a per-project or ongoing basis, include:

  • Contract review and messenger model contracting
  • Provide physician/group with an objective analysis of payor offers
    • Negotiate with payors on non-competitive administrative terms
    • Review contracts, determine contractural implications, recommend language modifications
    • Provide reimbursement comparisons
  • Practice assessment reports
  • CPT code analysis - A comparison of payor reimbursement with recommendations
  • Payor analysis - A detailed analysis of the practice's patient base, major payors, charges by visit, graphs and recommendations
  • Payor claim evaluation - Claims are reviewed for accuracy, potential liability for overpayments, denials and losses due to fee schedule allowables