How will you keep up with increasing demands for GI care?
Access to GI care isn't just a problem for patients.
Clinician Dissatisfaction & Burnout
Physicians struggle to keep up with escalating patient needs and uncompensated activities - leading to burnout and turnover. Referring providers are frustrated with long wait times and the absence of timely specialty support.
Patient Leakage & Cancellations
Long patient backlogs lead to patient leakage and churn, increase cancellations and no show rates.
Constrained Growth
Physicians are spending more hours in clinic with routine consults, limiting procedural throughout and constraining growth opportunities.
Increasing Costs & Negative Outcomes
Patients wait months to be seen, driving higher costs from unnecessary ER visits for untreated symptoms. Delayed diagnosis and treatment negatively impacts outcomes.
What can GI providers do?
Increasing demand and constrained supply make GI the #1 most in-demand specialty with the highest number of active job postings for gastroenterologists and Advanced Practice Providers.
Keeping up with demand:
With a growing patient backlog, GI specialists are overwhelmed with routine consults and have less time for complex patients and procedures. At-home screenings, lab screenings, and expanded screening guidelines will continue increasing demand – making it even harder for physicians to focus on top-of-license care.
Hiring more help:
Hiring, training, and retention are major challenges in the midst of a worsening shortage of GI specialists. Vacancies create an estimated revenue loss of $1.4M for a gastroenterologist and $500k for an APP in the first 6 months alone.
More than 50% of GI physicians are 55+ with a wave of retirements approaching.
>80% of virtual patients will still need to be seen in-person during their care journey.
Non-integrated, virtual-only solutions:
Outsourcing patients to a standalone virtual vendor not integrated with your practice only further fragments care. When patients transfer from a non-integrated virtual vendor to an in-person specialist, the wait to be seen starts all over again – resulting in longer treatment delays, more ER visits, and the same bottlenecks at site of care.
Christine Yoder, MSN NR CACS CPHQ
Senior VP of Operations, U.S. Digestive Health
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