Align physician enterprise performance with strategy
Connect physician deployment, APP strategy, and market demand to strengthen access, margins, and enterprise sustainability.
Disciplined physician enterprise performance
Employed physician costs often outpace market demand, care-model evolution, and enterprise priorities. Vizient connects productivity benchmarking, care team design insight, and portfolio analytics to help leaders build disciplined physician enterprise strategy.
In practice
What stronger physician productivity and alignment makes possible
Connect physician initiatives to financial outcomes
Translate physician alignment and quality outcomes into financial terms to secure investment and sustain performance.
Maximize team-based care performance
Optimize physician and APP deployment through structured care models that expand access, improve efficiency, and increase the return on provider investments.
Physician access strategy and patient loyalty
Improve appointment access and referral flow to capture more patient spend and strengthen loyalty.
Given the growing financial pressures that health systems face, they must rethink how they are deploying scarce financial resources and physician talent across the enterprise.
Provider costs rise while teams transform
Direct expenses per provider climb while APPs comprise growing workforce share, making strategic deployment essential to sustain margins and optimize performance.
Direct expense per provider
Total direct expense per provider FTE rose 6% between Q3 2023 and Q3 2025 for physician practices
APPs in the workforce
Advanced practice providers now comprise more than 40% of employed providers
PRODUCTS
The capabilities behind the solution
Vizient Networks
Combine intelligence, expert guidance, and peer collaboration to improve outcomes and accelerate progress. Vizient Networks helps leaders turn insight into sustained performance improvement.
Clinical Practice Solutions Center
Connect clinical, financial, and operational performance to uncover gaps, prioritize improvement, and strengthen physician alignment.
Operational Data Base
Benchmark workforce and expense performance to identify variation, align teams, and act on the highest-impact operational opportunities.
Physician enterprise services
Optimize governance, care models, and performance management to improve access, productivity, and long-term growth.
Improve physician workforce efficiency
Align physician scheduling, roles and capacity to reduce inefficiencies, expand access, and strengthen overall performance.
Physician Enterprise Value Assessment
See where the physician enterprise is creating value and where it's draining it
Portfolio decisions improve when leaders can separate strategically important investment from employment models that no longer fit demand, economics, or organizational priorities.
Care Team Optimization
Move beyond outdated APP deployment and care team assumptions
Productivity gains are more durable when APPs are integrated through purpose-built care models that expand capacity and align clinical labor to the work that matters most.
Market-Aligned Provider Deployment
Deploy providers where market demand and strategy actually support them
Recruitment, retention, and deployment decisions become more defensible when they are anchored in service-line viability, patient access needs, and market opportunity instead of historical precedent.
Assess your organization
See your organization's performance in perspective
See how you compare and where to focus next.