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  • Sound Physicians Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification™

    | Careers, Culture

    Sound Physicians is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the first time. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current […]

  • Transitioning Health Systems to Value-Based Care

    | Performance, Thought Leadership

    The transition to value-based care puts costly acute care under a magnifying glass. The United States spends $3.8 trillion on healthcare annually. Astonishingly, acute episodes […]

  • 4 Common Barriers to Telemedicine in SNFs

    | Clinical Innovation, Telemedicine

    Effective telemedicine integration is one of the most powerful advantages a SNF (skilled nursing facility) can invest in. While telemedicine aids nurses and increases the […]

  • Three Key Strategies for Improving Acute Med-Psych Patient Status and Management

    | Performance

    An estimated 30% of individuals have medical and psychiatric illnesses when entering an emergency department. Co-occurrence of medical and psychiatric illnesses is one of the […]

  • 5 Keys to Successful Value-Based Care

    | Thought Leadership

    VBC (Value-based care) was not on Dr. Rob Bessler’s mind when he founded Sound Physicians in 2001. Bessler was focused on another challenge – how […]

  • An APP Leader with an Eye on Quality and Partnership

    | Culture, Leadership

    Meet Nurse Practitioner Cindy Simpkins, one of Sound’s APPs to hold an Assistant Medical Director position. Her role is a shining example of how redefining […]

  • Sound Long-Term Care Management

    | Accountable Care

    Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been around for years – generally focused on community-based Medicare recipients, helping to increase care and coordination of care while […]

  • Home Health Care: Big Challenges, Innovative Solutions

    | Clinical Innovation, Telemedicine

    The Primary Care Problem Now more than ever, evidence proves that care services provided at home rather than at a facility create undeniable value for […]

  • Mandatory Bundled Payments – Are you Ready?

    | Policy, Thought Leadership

    Read the whitepaper here: Instant download CMS introduced bundled payment models over the past decade, including the current BPCI-A program, which has effectively reigned in […]

  • Tactics to Successfully Appeal a Denial Letter

    | Performance, Policy

    When creating an appeal letter, clarity and brevity are essential to increasing success. Now more than ever, overturning denials is critical for hospitals’ revenue cycles. […]

  • Sustaining Affordability in Emergency Medicine

    | Clinical Innovation, Performance

    As COVID-19 has tested us to our core, it begs the question: Is sustaining operational affordability in emergency medicine (EM) possible? The pandemic morphed and […]

  • Traits of a Strong Anesthesia Team

    | Culture, Leadership

    The strongest Anesthesia teams are a source of leadership poised to meet seismic shifts facing hospitals and ambulatory service centers (ASCs). As hospitals make their […]

  • What You Need to Know (And Do) About the Inpatient Only List

    | Policy

    It’s back! For more than 20 years, the Inpatient Only list (IPO) ruled as CMS’ method of determining how they would pay for surgeries under […]

  • Redefining Patient Surveys to Improve Care

    | Performance

    Understanding how patients perceive the care they receive is imperative towards any healthcare organization’s success. For many years we have often relied on surveys that […]

  • Thinking About a Career Change to Telemedicine? Five Things to Consider.

    | Performance, Telemedicine

    Like many innovations developed and adopted in medical practice, telemedicine is an exciting tool that can solve a set of needs. Soon, we will imagine […]

  • Creating Effective Team-Based Patient Care

    | Performance

    Advanced practice providers (APPs) are a valuable component of team-based care in hospital medicine, emergency medicine, and critical care. A closer look at the traits […]

  • Five Strategies to Win Peer-to-Peer Conversations

    | Performance

    Engaging in a peer-to-peer review can be tedious, time-consuming, and frustrating for physicians. The process of chasing down information, going back and forth with the […]

  • Anesthesia Teams: A Source of Surgery Center Leadership

    | Performance

    Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) continue to grow in facility numbers, patient volumes, and the procedures they perform. A recent study by Bain & Co. cites […]

  • Aligning Physicians to Value – Show, Don’t Tell!

    | Clinical Innovation, Policy, Thought Leadership

    Value-based care (VBC) is advancing, but for many, the transition from fee-for-service proves challenging. As noted earlier this year in the HealthLeaders 2021 Value-Based Care […]

  • Value-Based Critical Care

    | Clinical Innovation, Performance

    As we look to the next phase of healthcare reform, there’s every reason to believe there will be a continued push on coverage expansion. Leadership […]