CHCI News Latest News Spring Newsletter - 2005 HRSA Grant Alert - 9/2004 Physician Reimbursement Newsletter - Winter 2003 Winter Newsletter - 12/2003 Rural Newsletter - 12/2002 Rural Newsletter - 6/2002 Balancing the Need Equation! Physician practice location is key to meeting community needs and generating revenue for your organization. This is especially true today in light of IRS guidance on physician recruitment, OIG safe harbors, and Stark II.  Contemporary Health Care, Inc.’s (CHCI) products regarding expanding physician practices based on community need include the following: · Federal Designations · Service/Program Delivery Analysis · Capacity Building Models Hospitals that are interested in pursuing federal designations for physician recruitment purposes need to be in compliance with OIG Safe Harbors, IRS Private Letter Rulings, and Stark II. Safe Harbors of the November 19, 1999 Federal Register, allow hospitals that serve communities that have difficulty attracting certain medical professionals in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) Medically Underserved Areas (MUA), or Medically Underserved Populations (MUP) to offer recruitment inducements. Failure to meet specific Safe Harbor criteria will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The IRS Private Letter Ruling of July 31, 1998 discusses physician recruitment activities and income guarantees and that when evidence (needs assessment) demonstrates that physicians in a community are under-represented, a tax-exempt organization may provide reasonable recruitment incentives. Stark II permits a hospital to offer inducements to get a physician to relocate to the hospital’s service area without violating the prohibition on self- referrals if certain criteria are met. CHCI’s physician, demographic, and product line databases have been developed to support decision making relative to physician placement, recruitment, retention, satellite office development, practice expansion, and federal designations (HPSA,   MUA, MUP). Along with our Physician Network Need Models, CHCI has all the necessary tools to assist you in developing the “right” areas for expansion. By utilizing our multiple databases specific to the client’s needs, CHCI can identify physician manpower needs by specialty and by marketplace. Based on our extensive physician experience, coupled with national and regional indicators and benchmarks (i.e. Physician Network Need Models), CHCI can calculate the need for additional practitioners in your targeted area at marketplace, county, or zip code level. Taking the project further, CHCI can assist your organization in the in-depth analysis of your marketplace, population, utilization, market share, along with physician funding alternatives and capacity building models – incremental revenue projected to determine cost benefit of service/program expansion.  CHCI can provide the technical financial and strategic planning expertise to make sound physician recruitment decisions in an era where multiple agencies evaluate hospital/physician relationships on a case-by-case basis. CHCI performs the financial analysis of these projects. If you require legal advice in connection our services, we can suggest a firm that has expertise in this area. Further, our extensive physician-related projects have led CHCI to team with an Application Service Provider (ASP) that offers their physician practice management software packages over the Internet. Physicians can access their patients and data from anywhere and pay for the software on a subscription basis. Please fill out our Contact Form >> . Contemporary Health Care, Inc. contemphlthcare@msn.com 800.925.1919 1955 State Highway 34 Suite 3B Wall, New Jersey 07719 Phone: 732.974.7200 | Fax: 732.974.7299 1450 Annunciation Street Suite 2101 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Phone: 504.561.0805 | Fax: 732.974.7299