Cost for Integrated Delivery Systems 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data Print Edition

This report on costs for integrated delivery systems (IDS) provides a substantial range and depth of data, allowing for more thorough comparisons.

 Use this report to: 

• Recognize practice traits that contribute to greater cost efficiency and profitability 
• Assess medical practice performance by group size, geographic region and other key characteristics
• Evaluate key expense and revenue measures to find opportunities for improvement
• Analyze the impact of ancillary services in your medical practice specialty
• Determine how payer mix can affect your bottom line
• Review medical staffing costs compared with revenue and other variables
• Perform cost-reduction analysis and improve profitability despite economic restrictions

This report includes:

• Detail on operating costs, revenue and medical staffing broken out by practice type, type of care and number of practices/hospitals in system
• Information pertaining to parent contribution to the organization, overhead applied to the practice and system characteristics (total beds, total hospitals, total FTE physicians)
• Data on the types of centralized services provided by the system and level of information technology adoption/standards
•  Case study showing how one medical practice used MGMA data