Elliott Davis VitalSigns Newsletter Winter 2010

The beginning of a new year provides a great opportunity to evaluate the position of your organization. Are you meeting your financial goals, making your patients healthy and happy, growing your practice, satisfying regulatory demands, improving your technology, and working well with your fellow professionals? Whether only one or all of these items are on your organization’s radar for the new year, you should take a moment to plan for how you can progress toward meeting your goals in the year ahead.

In this issue of VitalSigns, we discuss the growth stages of a hospital-owned physician network, regulatory reporting requirements, incentives of CMS reporting, finding the best doctor to hire for your practice, and standardized patient surveys.

We wish the best for you and your practice in the coming year and hope that, if nothing else, we are finally moving past the economic hurdles our nation has recently faced and will be able to once again fully focus on both the practice and business of medicine.