Aligning For Success

Aligning for Success

Editorial Staff

Suzette Sison Editor in Chief ssison@pegisolutions.com Kelly McCormick Digital/Managing Editor kmccormick@pegisolutions.com

Contributing Writers: Lynn Hetzler, Jake Keator, Robert Kurtz, and Rachael Samonski

This issue of the PE GI Journal recaps another unusual year. You can read my thoughts on key takeaways from the year on page 4 of this issue. In this article, I highlight the impressive resilience of the GI industry in the face of continued uncertainty and disruption. I draw attention to the extraordinary efforts around patient engagement and expanded access. I note some of the most significant challenges facing the industry and share ideas on what I feel must happen to help overcome these obstacles, such as using clinical and information technology. I talk about the ongoing consolidation in the industry and what will be required for these efforts to deliver on their promise. Finally, I touch on the importance of prioritizing support for gastroenterologists.

I’d like to elaborate a bit further on the work I feel is necessary to best position the industry going forward. The first step concerns the role of companies like PE GI Solutions supporting and aligning practices and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). We’ve done a lot of good work around caring for the other areas of the doctor’s business. Now, through proper consolidation, we can help gastroenterologists better care for themselves.

Which brings me to the second step: helping doctors make sound decisions for their future. This means providing guidance so they can effectively plan for different compensation models, different succession plans and the employment versus independent route.

The third step concerns increasing collaboration and alignment of gastroenterologists and their facilities with industry partners, such as primary care networks and health systems. A key here will be the use of technology and data through improved integration. This should support more effective incorporation of the doctors’ and patients’ roles into the healthcare system, which will eventually lead to something similar to value-based care.

In terms of PE GI Solutions’ role in these efforts, we’ll continue to focus on the core principles of the company: We’re here to work for and with doctors, invest for and with doctors, and find alignment on their success. When we do well for our doctors, the company does well.

This is not a new philosophy. It’s what we eat, sleep, and breathe. And it’s what motivated us to launch a practice management services organization in 2019, which eventually led to our company name change at the beginning of 2021.

What we have always done and will continue to do in this business is make investments in the future focusing on careers and longevity of young doctors that allows older doctors to have a proper succession plan and transition. These investments are not and will never be around executing transactions. They reflect our unwavering commitment to enter into long-term partnerships that ultimately bring success to everyone involved.

When we do well for our doctors, the company does well.

David Young, President & CEO, PE GI Solutions

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