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.

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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.

Matthew Bates, MPH

Managing Director, Service Line Leader, Physician Enterprise,

Kaufman Hall

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.

+6%

Direct expense per provider

Total direct expense per provider FTE rose 6% between Q3 2023 and Q3 2025 for physician practices

40%

APPs in the workforce

Advanced practice providers now comprise more than 40% of employed providers

See where the physician enterprise is creating value and where it's draining it

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.

Move beyond outdated APP deployment and care team assumptions

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Move beyond outdated APP deployment and care team assumptions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.

Deploy providers where market demand and strategy actually support them

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.