Recent Newsletters

• Vision and Viability, 2010 III – Accountable Care Organizations: To Be or Not to Be?
• Vision and Viability, 2010 II – Employing Physicians: Planning for Compensation
• Vision and Viability, 2010 I – Financial Analysis in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Anchor in Emotional Currents

Strategy and Finance

• DGA Services for Chief Financial Officers – Be Convinced - (brochure)
• Capital Planning for Clinical Integration – Daniel M. Grauman, Gerald Neff, Molly Martha Johnson, Healthcare Financial Management, April 2011 – (article)
• Access to Capital: Implications for Hospital Consolidation – John M. Harris, Daniel M. Grauman, Christine Martin, Healthcare Financial Management, April 2010 – (article)
• Hospitals 2020: Economics, Clinical Innovation and IT Will Reshape Healthcare Delivery Model – Don Seymour (President of Don Seymour & Associates) and Daniel M. Grauman, Society for Healthcare Strategy, Marketing and Development, September 2009 - (presentation)
• Eight Steps to Successful Use of Financial Modeling – (article)
• Financial Planning for Major Initiatives – John Harris, Healthcare Financial Management, November 2007 - (article)
• Emerging Strategic Issues for Hospitals and Health Systems – (article)

Accountable Care and Payments

• DGA Services for Physician-Hospital Relationships – Partners for Success - (brochure)
• A Better Outlook for ACOs – John Harris, Idette Elizondo and Molly Johnson, HFMA website, January 2012 - (article)
• 3 Steps to Analyze your Organization’s ACO Opportunity – John Harris, Idette Elizondo and Molly Johnson, HFMA website, January 2012 - (web extra)
• Understanding The Medicare Bundled Payment Initiative Opportunity – John M. Harris, Philadelphia Bar Association Health Care Law Committee, October 2011 - (presentation)
• ACO Overview and Considerations – John Harris and C. Mitchell Goldman, Duane Morris, LLP, Hospital & Health System Association of Pennsylvania, May 2011 - (presentation)
• Becker’s interviews DGA CEO Dan Grauman – Attracting Primary Care Providers to Your ACO: 4 Considerations, Becker’s Hospital Review, December 10th, 2010
• Solving the ACO Conundrum – John M. Harris, Daniel M. Grauman and Rashi Hemnani, Healthcare Financial Management, November 2010 - (article)
• Becker’s interviews DGA Principal John Harris – Should Your Hospital Develop or Join an ACO?: 5 Questions to Ask, Becker’s Hospital Review, November 9th, 2010
• Medicare Bundled Payment Pilot Program – Jonathan W. Pearce and John M. Harris, Healthcare Financial Management, September 2010 - (article)
• Integrated Payment Innovations – Implications for Physician Alignment Strategies, Daniel M. Grauman, New York Society For Health Planning Webinar, March 2010 - (presentation)

Physician-Hospital Alignment

• Physician Practice Acquisitions: Preparing for the Transaction – Karin Chernoff Kaplan and Rudd Kierstead, Healthcare Financial Management, December 2011 - (article)
• Compensation Plan Redesign – Karin Chernoff Kaplan, DGA Director, Joint Physician Integration Advisory Group (PIAG) / Chief Financial Officers Council of the VHA, November 10, 2011 (presentation)
• Becker’s interviews DGA Manager Rudd Kierstead – 6 Questions and Answers on Hospital Medical Staff Planning, Becker’s Hospital Review, June 20, 2011 - (interview)
• From the Trenches: Strategic Imperatives and Alignment Solutions – Rudd Kierstead, Hudson Valley HFMA, April 2011 - (presentation)
• Great Boards Interviews DGA CEO Dan Grauman – The Board’s Role in Compensation Oversight for Employed Physicians, Great Boards, Spring 2010 - (interview)
• Doing the Math on Physician Employment – John M. Harris, H. J. Simmons III and Rudd Kierstead, Healthcare Financial Management, December 2009 - (article)
• Choosing the Right Approach to Medical Staff Planning – (article)
• Tight Times and Sacred Cows: Uncovering Opportunity in the Financial Crisis – (article)
• 3 Durable Strategies for Physician Alignment – Daniel M. Grauman and John M. Harris, Healthcare Financial Management, December 2008 - (article)
• On-Call Compensation: Meeting the Challenge – (article)

Valuation Services

• DGA Healthcare Valuation Services – Opinions You Can Trust - (brochure)
• The New Age of Complex Business Valuation – Karin Chernoff Kaplan, AVA, DGA Partners and Thomas M. Tammany, Esquire, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, HFMA NJ Chapter 2011 Annual Institute, October 2011 - (presentation)
• Fair Market Valuation of Physician Compensation -- Ten Pitfalls to Avoid – H.J. Simmons III, Karin Chernoff Kaplan and Rudd Kierstead, HFMA Metro NY website, July 2011 - (article)
• Becker’s interviews DGA Manager Rudd Kierstead – 3 Key Trends in Physician Compensation Design, Becker’s Hospital Review, April 19, 2011
• Becker’s interviews DGA Director Karin Kaplan – Cardiologists Knocking at Your Door?: How to Determine if Acquiring a Heart Group is Right for Your Hospital, Becker’s Hospital Review, February 11, 2011
• 10 Myths of Healthcare Valuation – J. David Robeson III and Karin Chernoff Kaplan, Healthcare Financial Management, October 2008 - (article)
• Consultative Valuation – Preventive Medicine For Deal Development (article)

PACE Services

• Planning and Implementing an Integrated IT Solution – Carole Graham, John Harris, Don Keister (Executive Director of Providence Eldercare), National PACE Association Conference, October 2008 - (presentation)