Hospitalist Programs:
Reduce Costs, Improve Care
Hospitalist programs bring many efficiencies to inpatient care but can be a headache to set up and administer. Finding and retaining hospitalists is a major hurdle in itself, since there are six openings for every qualified applicant. When you partner with IN Compass Health, your hospital enjoys all of the advantages of a hospitalist program while we handle all of the challenges.
We contract with hospitals to staff and manage inpatient care, providing a team of hospitalists, professional management and administrative support, including billing and reimbursement expertise and services. Providing 24-hour coverage at our clients’ facilities, our onsite and on-call hospitalists also provide continuous support to other areas of the hospital on an as-needed basis—particularly for unassigned patients in the emergency room.
Advantages of IN Compass Hospitalist Programs
- Greater emergency department throughput
- Shorter lengths of stay
- Reduced cost per case
- Onsite case management
- Core measure compliance
- Clinical pathway and protocol management
- Increased bed and patient capacity (ED and inpatient)
- Observation
- Admitting and discharge management
- Consult and specialty services support
- Increased PCP satisfaction and practice capacity
The advantages don’t stop with our hospitalist program itself. To conserve scarce inhouse resources, you can also add comprehensive
management services such as billing, coding and physician incentives.