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5 Hospitals with Most, Fewest Psychiatrists Per Capita; How to Drop Physician Turnover by 40%: Report · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan Wither's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your industry news brief for Wednesday, May 31st. First,
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  the Kaiser Family Foundation compiled data to show how many psychiatrists are in
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  each state.
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  Comparing that to population data from world population review gives us the
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  number of psychiatrists per capita.
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  The five states with the most psychiatrists per person are all on the East
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  Coast, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, and Maryland.
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  The five states with the least psychiatrists per person are Idaho, Montana,
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  Mississippi, Indiana, and Utah.
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  Idaho has one psychiatrist per every 16,586 people.
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  On the other hand, Massachusetts has one psychiatrist for every two,
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  five people. Second, former New York physician,
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  Dr. Frank, is sentenced to three years in prison.
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  32 counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone.
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  Between January 20 and February 20,
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  DRMO prescribed Oxycodone. Hydrocodone
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  theses had detox treatment or were recently just charged from a hospital
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  following an overdose.
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  He continued to write prescriptions for some patients who may have been
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  reselling them or were misusing them in five years.
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  Drmo prescribed over 5 million Oxycodone Hydrocodone,
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  one of the top prescribers drugs in.
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  He was under DEA investigation. Dr.
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  Paramo cut down on prescribing oxycodone by half.
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  Third,
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  A US surgeon General report shows the US will face a shortage of 3.2 million
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  healthcare workers in just three years.
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  An AMA report also shows 63% of physicians report burnout.
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  The MGMA data drive provider compensation report highlights 10
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  recommendations to reduce physician and physician executive turnover by as
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  much as 40%. One,
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  create a physician retention committee to,
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  for groups with over 100 positions,
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  the committee should be six to 10 physicians.
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  It should include the organization's head of physician recruitment and
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  retention. Smaller groups should have four to six. Position three,
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  including nonphysician,
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  administrators or executives on the committee may hurt the committee's
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  credibility
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  for determine how many physicians are leaving both voluntarily and
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  involuntarily. This excludes temporary,
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  interim or locum tennis positions. Five.
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  Determine why physicians are leaving.
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  Strategies for this include well documented and blinded exit interviews,
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  as well as surveys sent to those who left in the past year. Six.
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  Review all involuntary terminations.
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  Look for issues that may have been overlooked in the hiring process.
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  Blind the results before sharing with the committee. Seven.
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  Create a survey for all physicians.
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  Ask them to share their current feelings about practicing in the organization.
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  Eight. Group results by category through the retention committee.
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  Address each category individually with recommendations for improvement.
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  Nine. Develop a findings, report and present to senior leadership.
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  Leave the report with recommendations for attendees to review.
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  Schedule a second meeting for the next week.
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  Set expectations that each category will be discussed and addressed. 10.
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  Compile the results and recommendations into a report presented to medical
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  staff.
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  MGMA says this process will likely take three to four months to complete.
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