Services

SomarHealth offers the permanent or interim placement of a healthcare executive to manage a practice, hospital division or department or to oversee a specific project. We also offer long-term fractional executive leadership for practices with an on-going but limited need.  With prior leadership experience in primary care and most medical and surgical specialties, SomarHealth is positioned to hit the ground running.

Successful medical group practices develop and execute a strategic plan to protect and grow market share.  They continually seek new business opportunities and market their professional services.  SomarHealth helps identify these opportunities and develops a strategy to enter a new geographic market or market segment or to land a contract and grow your business.

A successful practice reviews monthly financial statements, understands the levers that drive the business, sets annual targets to measure performance against budget and deploys countermeasures if metrics are not achieved.  SomarHealth quickly understands your practice’s financial landscape and addresses performance gaps to improve operating margins.

With experience building seven de novo practices in six states, SomarHealth has the experience to assist private practice physicians develop new practices or expand to new locations, including expanding across state lines.  SomarHealth consults with industry leaders, as necessary, for component expertise (e.g. benefit plan design) to ensure the practice is ready on day 1.

Creating new service lines, joint ventures or businesses are critical to the success of physician medical practices.  However, asking your practice’s executive leadership to perform this work may distract them from your core business.  SomarHealth can step in, working alongside your physician and administrative executives, to lead the development and implementation of new ventures.

Negotiating successful contracts (hospital, payer, employee, etc.) are critical to ensure favorable terms that will protect the interests of your group.  Many individuals will take a selfish approach to a negotiation with the intent to win.  While there is always a need to protect the bottom line, truly successful negotiations yield results that are favorable to all parties and develop trust and transparency that will weather any difficulties in the future.

Practices sometimes need a non-biased expert opinion of their operations to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency.  If you’ve heard the phrase “it’s the way we’ve always done it” it’s time to review your operations.  An assessment can breathe new life into a dormant practice and identify opportunities for revenue enhancement and/or cost savings.

SomarHealth can fill critical positions in your healthcare organization.  We start by understanding your needs to help ensure that candidates will be successful.  SomarHealth then source all candidates, conduct screening interviews, develop detailed candidate summaries and present a short list of actionable applicants. Once you select a successful candidate, we negotiate the terms of the offer on your behalf and perform reference and background checks.

With decades of private practice governance experience, SomarHealth assists clients in developing and managing effective and nimble governance structures.  We also develop succession plans ensuring medical practices are prepared for planned and unexpected physician and executive leadership changes.