Strategic Planning and Retreats – understand the changing environment surrounding the practice, evaluate practice strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, develop leadership and operational structure/goals to meet the future with confidence.
Services - plan and implement physician/leadership retreats.
Payer Relations and Negotiations – Guidance and support for managing and enhancing payer relations and negotiations, building a “value” portfolio for the practice for both negotiating and marketing use.
Services - Consulting or speaking engagements for individual practices or collaborating groups of practices - outreach and collaborative planning with specific payers also available
Proving Value – In a dramatically changing payer world, with Pay-for-performance (P4P), quality, disease management, specialty pharmacy and oncology management initiatives constantly under development, oncology practices need to understand this environment and develop strategies to prove their own value, both internally and external.
Services - Consulting or speaking engagements for individual practices or collaborating groups of practices
Mergers, Consolidation, Networking and Collaboration – Practices facing mutual challenges or with an interest in working together for stronger quality management of oncology care in their communities seek guidance and education about where and how to start, what opportunities/challenges might face them. DGH Consulting can conduct a situation analysis, present new model alternatives, and implement chosen models to position practices for strength and survival.
Services - Consulting or speaking engagements for individual practices or collaborating groups of practices
Payer News and Trend Watches – Every day, articles and issues arise that affect oncology but which do not appear in the oncology media. Conferences on how to manage oncology and oncology drugs, managing disease, and measuring oncology occur, and few in the delivery of oncology care even learn what is being discussed.
Services - Consulting updates, speaking engagements and subscription to a news watch are available.
Managed Care Organizations, Employers and Business Groups
Oncology Strategy and Relations – Oncology is a complex specialty that has been through sweeping changes for each of the last few years regarding federal payment policy and operational upheaval. Understanding oncology as a specialty - the business of oncology and how its challenges and opportunities are uniquely different from other specialties - is key to developing workable strategies and policies.
Services - Consulting or speaking engagements that bring a historical understanding of oncology and the evolution of cancer care, as well as a detailed understanding of the challenges and opportunities for oncology currently, can lead to projects and collaboration with member oncology groups for value-driven healthcare.
Value-Driven Healthcare – Defining “Value” in oncology is a complex question, and measures and processes will continually evolve over the next several years. Understanding the specialty and challenges in technology and data management at the practice level, as well as the pros and cons of prior initiatives and potential collaborative opportunities in your own market area are essential to progress toward value-driven healthcare.
Services - Consulting or speaking engagements can lead to workable projects and collaboration with member oncology groups on an evolving basis.
Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Groups
Oncology Strategy and Relations - Oncology is a complex specialty that has been through sweeping changes for each of the last few years regarding federal payment policy and operational upheaval. Understanding oncology as a specialty - the business of oncology and how its challenges and opportunities are uniquely different from other specialties - is key to developing workable strategies and policies.
Services - Consulting or speaking engagements that bring a historical understanding of oncology and the evolution of cancer care, as well as a detailed understanding of the challenges and opportunities for oncology currently, can lead to projects and collaboration with member oncology groups for value-driven healthcare.
Payer News and Trend Watches – Every day, articles and issues appear that affect the operations, approvals and reimbursement of oncology but which do not appear in the oncology media. Conferences on how to manage oncology and oncology drugs, managing disease, and measuring oncology occur in the worlds of managed care, employer and business groups, quality organizations and specialty pharmacy, but few in the business of oncology drugs and care even learn what is being discussed.
Services - Consulting updates, speaking engagements and subscription to a news watch are available.