First Consulting Group

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Healthcare Providers

For over 26 years, First Consulting Group (FCG) has helped healthcare providers streamline their clinical, financial and technical operations. No other organization matches FCG’s track record in delivering measurable performance improvement and real results.

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From clinical consulting, to implementations, to outsourcing, our success is based on our ability to improve patient safety, deploy transforming technologies, and save you money to fund new investments. At FCG, we stop at nothing less.

What's New

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Next Generation Healthcare Delivery: Preparing for the Not-So-Distant Future
FCG's leading industry experts and thought leaders provide a glimpse into the future state of the U.S. healthcare system as well as the role IT plays in delivering care and services that are reliable, efficient and transparent in this white paper.

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Many hospital leaders and physicians believe that sharing clinical information to provide more seamless, coordinated care for patients is the right thing to do. With recent changes in the Stark rules and the anti-kickback safe harbor, and a rapidly changing competitive environment, the incentives for hospitals and integrated delivery networks (IDNs) to connect with community physicians are only increasing.

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A new CMS exemption will provide a safe harbor for the CMS (Stark) regulation and OIG anti-kickback laws. Read more about this exemption and its implications in this report.

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This report provides practical information for hospitals in Massachusetts about to implement CPOE as part of the MTC-organized Massachusetts Hospital CPOE Initiative.


Strategic Sourcing: Become More Efficient. Lower Your Costs

It’s true, you can boost efficiency and improve operations while lowering costs. FCG’s world-class Healthcare Provider consulting and technology practice offers the experience, skilled resources, tools and business models to lead you into the future.

We’ve responded to the increasing pressures you face to improve safety, streamline operations and control costs with an innovative Blended-Shore Delivery Model. Our model uses a strategic and flexible combination of on-site and off-site resources coupled with dedicated teams of industry-seasoned managers to bring you the highest-quality services at the lowest possible cost. By partnering with FCG, you can lower costs by as much as 30 to 50 percent and decrease time to implement by 30 percent.

The result? You extract the most efficiency from every dollar—an important consideration when every dollar invested could save people’s lives. Learn more about our: