Executive Health Resources

I love working for EHR and the help that we provide to the rural and large hospitals alike. We are owned by an insurance company and help hospitals learn to follow specific governmental guidelines and to defend themselves against insurance companies, learn from and correct physician/​documentation/​process issues as well as help hospitalists solidify their decisions on whether to have a patient be inpatient or outpatient to decrease incorrect billing and eliminate fraud.
I work in the smallest department, Special Projects as the Senior Project Manager. The physicians, including my boss and all of my co-​workers are amazing people with incredible work ethic and we are an awesome team. Our physicians love having the ability to work from home all over the country (except for a few local physicians that can work in the office if they choose, and they come in!) and get to use their expertise without the stress of patient care, long hours and expensive insurance. We have physicians that are still practicing and work on their own terms. I am well compensated for my knowledge and experience; I feel as though I accomplished something at the end of the day and enjoy the client/​attorney interaction.
I have been with EHR since December 2010 and although the dynamic of the company has changed minimally since the buyout, I thrive in a changing environment and appreciate the structure and improving processes.

I hear a lot of gripes from physicians working for EHR. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea so if you don’t like it, quit and move on. I just want to dispel some of the myths I’ve read from the reviews (filtered and unfiltered ones) here. Things do change a lot and maybe the comments I’ve read are from a different time at EHR.
You have to realize that you’re not practicing medicine in the traditional sense so you’re not going to be paid relatively the same! You’re working from home for goodness sakes and may cut off at least two hours off of a typical doctor’s day of work! And if you compare EHR to a typical medical corporation, you actually get paid pretty close to or more than the average base pay for primary care.
There are no hidden numbers. Base salary given up front and quarterly bonus can be up to 18% of that. There are opportunities to earn bonuses per case very frequently. You’re asked to work one weekend day a month and then you get a weekday off In return. This a is a far cry from one reviewer’s «you’re made to work nights and weekends all the time.» You have to work two holidays but get paid a lot on top of that per case and then you’re give two floating holidays to use in return. All this is clearly outlined and upheld. Your case by case bonus gets summarized by dates and sent to you every month.
All the complaints about big brother? What do you expect from a multi billion dollar corporation? Leave it to an honor system so 500 plus docs can sit at home and work at their own pace and schedule? You have to have some kind of monitoring system. And if you’re doing what needs to be done, then you shouldn’t be so irked by reminder mass emails that actually come several times a day, a necessary evil if you get the benefit of working remotely. At the end of my day, I log off the computer and there are no worries of killing a patient, insurance companies to deal with directly lol, an hour commute in traffic, office overhead, malpractice insurance, etc. AND MORE TIME TO SPEND WITH MY FAMILY!!! So take what you will from this review but I think the exaggerated woest be me reviews in the past needed an updated response.

Responding to Reddy N. — while it can be difficult to deal with change, those of us who are part of EHR recognize that our service is needed every day, all year long, thus the need to make a fair schedule. As physicians, most folks go in prepared for working outside «usual business hours» and understand the need for a fair distribution of the burden. It’s a wonder that is had not happened sooner. As for the comments about the salary and bonuses, the information about them are available up front when you sign on, no broken promises there and the opportunity to earn significant bonuses for working above and beyond is readily available. Many, many of us earn as much or more than we did in practice and have a much less stressful worklife. I feel the professional environment is supportive and allows me to do some of my best clinical decision making. I have learned a great deal about risks, the value of documentation — for both patient care as well as compliance. Our opportunity to support small hospitals in their efforts to comply with complex regulatory issues is rewarding. Many would suffer financial hardship without a service such as we provide. The fact that huge numbers of physicians are joining our company and turn over is low speaks to a different ethos than the one you describe. I’ve worked for EHR for about 18 months after 25 years in practice and academics and while, there are some bumps in the communication lines that can be explained by incredibly rapid growth, I do not regret my decision to make this change from clinical practice to EHR and being a physician advisor