Just as efficient billing is a practice's lifeblood, practice management is the brains behind a successful physician practice. Alta Partners is run by an experienced team of professionals in both practice management and financial management and we maintain the credentials to support our claim.

Principal, Dan Kasinec, is a Fellow within the Medical Group Managers Association (MGMA) and serves in several leadership positions with this organization. Dan has developed and managed physician practices of all sizes and specialties, including private practices and health system owned practices.

Principal, Stan Kasmarcak is a CPA and is constantly challenged with finding new ways to manage and improve profitability within the practice.

And because our billing team consists almost entirely of individuals who have worked in physician offices, we understand firsthand the workflow and priorities necessary for effective operations.
 

• Audiology
• Emergency Medicine
• ENT
• Family Practice
• Hematology & Oncology
• Internal Medicine
• Neurology
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Occupational Medicine
   

• Pediatrics
• Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonology
• Surgery, General
• Surgery, Plastic
• Urgent Care

• We believe that successful practices cannot be managed in a vacuum, but rather in partnership between the physicians and management team.
• Physician involvement and leadership within the practice is essential for practice stability and success:
  • Promotes sense of “ownership” by physicians
  • Helps physicians better evaluate cost of resources used
  • Yields better decision-making within the practice
  • Reduces stress by involving key parties in decisions
• We recommend that physician financial incentives and group practice profitability objectives be aligned so that the physicians bear both risk and reward for their efforts:
  • Timely, credible financial information (both billing and expense) needs to be made available
  • Management support must be able to provide expertise to the practice that can be seen on the bottom line
  • Physicians must be involved in compensation plan design and on-going management

• Practice a "partnership" philosophy with physicians and hospitals
• Experience in all phases of practice management:
  • Billing, operations & human resources
  • Accounting & financial management
  • Physician compensation
  • Physician recruitment
  • New business development
  • Health system & board relationships
  • Integration with the community

Our expertise in physician practice management goes beyond practice staffing and supply management to areas that bring real dollars to a practice's bottom line.  We can anticipate and resolve everyday issues before they become problematic to your practice.

Compensation plan design & implementation:

• Developed numerous incentive-based physician compensation plans designed to:
  • Achieve revenue growth
  • Control expenses
  • Improve patient satisfaction
• Implemented a new RVU-based compensation plan that dramatically improved revenue while controlling expenses
• Developed numerous plans for management and staff

Physician recruitment:

• Proven experience recruiting in many markets (urban, rural, small town)
• Understand the process and the team needed to recruit successfully

Start-up practice development services:

• New physicians recruited into an existing practice
• “Green field” practice start-ups
• “Practice seeding” services – hospital client employs physicians then transitions the group into private practice

Physician office development:

• Built, consolidated, moved, & closed a large number of offices to meet changing market needs and/or transition them into different business entities

Practice acquisitions & mergers:

• Strategic plan development
• Financial feasibility analyses
• Negotiation
• Operational integration
• Human resources integration
  • Physicians
  • Staff
  • Management

Operation management services:

• Daily management, policy & procedure manuals, compliance manuals (OSHA, HIPAA)
• Assessments – billing, operational, financial

Practice Divestiture:

• Assessments and strategy development
• Plan implementation

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