Smart contracting: Tips for hospitals and anesthesia providers

Most hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers spend a significant amount of time and resources on securing contracts with anesthesia providers to help them provide essential patient care. Shortages of anesthesia providers and higher healthcare costs overall make hiring internally, contracting, or re-contracting with an anesthesia group a costly endeavor. Despite these challenges, there is due diligence both facilities and anesthesia providers can conduct in advance of negotiations to save money and create long-lasting partnerships. In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Dr. Josh Miller, physician managing director for Surgical Directions, shares thoughtful hiring tactics a hospital or ASC should deploy to make sure the anesthesiology group meets their unique needs and expectations. Miller also discusses the common challenges that come up when solidifying a contract and how to address them for long term success.