In a remote town of fewer than 6,000 residents, a rural hospital asked Rural Physicians Group to look into the benefits of introducing an in-house General Surgery Program at the hospital. A critical component of the RPG client promise is to always be upfront and transparent with hospitals about the impact we can make on their hospital, patients and community—so we conducted a financial model to project the requisite volume to support a general surgery program.
Coming to RPG without an outpatient surgery program at all (the hospital only had Emergent General Surgery prior to RPG), the financial model revealed that this rural hospital would need roughly 2.5 cases per week (10 per month) to pay for the RPG program. With this lofty projection in mind, the hospital engaged RPG for a general surgery program.