As a national hospitalist company, Intercede Health has a proven track record for developing, implementing, and overseeing hospitalist programs. Intercede Health works with clients to improve and effectively administer inpatient utilization with a specific focus on managing the chronic high-risk patient population. In the Hospital setting, Intercede Health reports on quality and financial performance measures. Health Plans utilize Intercede Health to both oversee current hospitalist programs and develop and implement new programs when needed. Intercede Health consults with Physician Groups financially at risk for managing commercial and Medicare populations.

Intercede Health offers a complete Hospitalist Program Model including:

• Hospitalist contract management
• Physician incentive programs
• Comprehensive, proprietary Hospitalist Training Program
• Evidence-based treatment guidelines
• Order Optimizer™ software
• Medical Director services
• Utilization Management/Utilization Review services and support
• Case Management and nurse training
• Program administration
• Billing
• Continuous quality and productivity monitoring

This comprehensive program model offers benefits for hospitals and health plans, including:

• A quality-based approach to reducing unnecessary bed days and associated costs
• Consistent quality care for indigent and unassigned patients
• Consistent best-practice guidelines used to assure patients are admitted to the appropriate unit (including observation) or discharged to outpatient care in a timely manner
• Use of data (physician performance assessments, outcomes reports) to influence physician behavior and reduce unnecessary resource utilization