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UCSF Medical Group
UCSF Medical Group represents the physicians
who care for patients at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children's
Hospital and who are full-time faculty at the University
of California, San Francisco. The medical group provides
a structure to enhance and facilitate clinical care, teaching,
research and community service for the faculty of the UCSF
School of Medicine.
UCSF Medical Group has an elected board of directors that
defines standards of care and sets strategy for the clinical
practices, defines new program opportunities and has authority
over medical group management. The board also acts on recommendations
of its committees to address issues such as contracting,
billing, credentialing, quality of care, incentives and
oversight of outpatient programs.
The group's purpose includes the following:
- Facilitate the delivery of health care services in a quality,
cost-effective, coordinated and patient-friendly manner
- Provide a unified structure for clinical departments to
participate in contracts with third party payers for clinical
services and to facilitate contracting jointly with UCSF
Medical Center
- Enhance the clinical practices through coordinated
planning, marketing and delivery of clinical services
- Facilitate UCSF's ability to maintain its academic
and clinical programs in support of the faculty and medical
school
- Ensure compliance with regulatory agency requirements
and quality standards
- Optimize primary and specialty care
- Develop alliances with other health care providers
to support the mission of the medical group and medical
school
- Evaluate, negotiate and monitor all contracts for
clinical services, including managed care contracts, fee
for service contracts and specialty packages on behalf
of medical group members
- Market the medical group and medical center clinical
services to patients, referring physicians, third-party
payers and others, as appropriate
- Facilitate communication between medical group members,
departments and medical group leadership
UCSF Medical Group cannot answer questions regarding
patient care, medical plan coverage or referrals. For this information,
please contact the Physician Referral Service at UCSF Medical Center:
UCSF Medical Group
1635 Divisadero St., Suite 625
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 476-4003
Administration
- Dr. Sam Hawgood, president
- Michael Hindery, vice dean for administration, finance and clinical programs
- David Rein, director of finance and practice management
- Margaret Martin, director of contracting
- Michael Delane, manager of credentialing
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