WHY PHYSICIANS JOIN PHOENIX
Physicians choose to work with Phoenix for many reasons:
Compensation
Phoenix recruiters constantly monitor the job market for physician pay rate trends and changes. From this monitoring, Phoenix creates compensation programs that pay our physicians extremely competitive rates. Even more, Phoenix prefers to pay our physicians based on productivity models. We endorse the concept that hard working physicians should receive the financial benefits of an efficient practice style. Quite obviously, our productivity based compensation models allow for this to happen.
Additionally, Phoenix realizes how crucial it is that our compensation models are fully transparent and easy to understand. As many physicians know, a common criticism is that many physician incentive pay models are hard to understand and cannot be reconciled. At Phoenix, we pride ourselves on using fully transparent, easy to understand incentive pay models. We don’t lose charts, incorrectly assign them to the wrong physician, or only tell you part of the story when you choose to join our group. To back up these promises, all of our physicians have 24 X 7 access to the Phoenix provider portal. This tool allows every physician the opportunity to fully review, sort, search, and reconcile their monthly productivity statistics and earnings every month.
Detailed Orientation Programs
Many physicians at one time or another have been “thrown into the fire” on their first shift at a new hospital. Phoenix guarantees that this will not happen. Instead, Phoenix orients all physicians to their new practice at their pace, giving them ample opportunity to understand how the practice operates. We make sure every new physician fully understands how to perform all duties relevant to their new practice. We invest in mentoring shifts, risk management training, and documentation education. We make sure our new physicians know how to use the hospital’s electronic medical record, digital radiography equipment, and prescription writing tools…before they work! In the end, our newly hired physicians find that their first true shift in their new practice feels like a shift they have done many times before.
Other Quality Physicians in the Group
One of the best things about partnering with Phoenix is the opportunity to work with other tremendous physicians. Because Phoenix is extremely selective about whom we hire, we can guarantee that all of our existing physicians are highly qualified and rank among the best physicians in the area. If you are worried about bad sign-outs, lazy providers, or unprofessional behavior, you won’t at Phoenix.
Favorable Physician Coverage Models
A key area Phoenix focuses on is making certain all of our physician practices operate under an appropriate coverage model with emphasis on physician coverage. Phoenix refuses to create a malignant work environment for our physicians with too little physician coverage or a surplus of midlevel coverage. Phoenix has come to the realization that patients are generally getting sicker every year, the administrative challenges while on duty are at an all time high, and hospital patients want timely service. Based on all of these realities, the Phoenix philosophy is one where an appropriate practice staffing model must include the right amount of physician coverage, does not over utilize midlevel providers, and factors in patient acuity and risk management concerns into the final staffing model.
Physician Friendly Risk Management Services
The Phoenix in-house risk management department is 100% committed to protecting our physicians. Our risk managers work with our providers as often as necessary to fully support them, regardless of circumstance. Additionally, all of our physicians receive a $1,000,000/$3,000,000 policy when they join Phoenix, and full tail coverage is always provided at no charge even if a physician chooses to terminate their working relationship with us.
Supportive and Knowledgeable Medical Leadership
Phoenix has great medical leaders, and they work with every one of our physicians to make certain they are happy, listened to, and get the support they need. If you ever have a need or a concern, Phoenix leadership will be there on a moment’s notice.
Even more, the Phoenix medical leadership has tremendous knowledge and experience, and they are happy to share their expertise with our providers at any time. Many of our medical leaders serve on important hospital committees, are involved with state and national medical professional societies, and are experts in a variety of fields relevant to the specialties we serve. Given this vast experience, every physician joining Phoenix should have comfort knowing they are joining forces with some of their specialty’s most knowledgeable medical leaders and experts.
Responsive Phoenix Office Staff Members
Phoenix has an outstanding group of office support staff team members, and they are there for our physicians whenever called upon. The Phoenix office team of recruiters, credentialers, schedulers, and practice managers are specifically trained to appreciate that our physicians take top priority for us. If our physicians ever have a need or a question, our support staff team is there to help.
Fair and Equitable Scheduling
Because physician schedules are so important to overall physician happiness and wellness, Phoenix invests a great deal of time in the production of our monthly work schedules. Our company schedulers listen intently to all of our physicians, and use their feedback and historical requests to write a fair and equal schedule for the entire practice every month.
