Resonant Advisory Services Changes Name to Sound Physicians Advisory Services

Updated name positions Sound Physicians subsidiary for growth

Tacoma, Wash. – January 31, 2017 – Sound Physicians announced today that its physician advisory service subsidiary, Resonant Physician Advisory Services, Inc., will also be known as Sound Physicians Advisory Services. Sound Physicians is a physician-founded healthcare leader focused on improving quality and lowering cost throughout the acute episode of care – through hospital medicine, critical care, transitional care, emergency medicine and physician advisory services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sound Physicians, Sound Physicians Advisory Services delivers secondary case reviews and audit defense services through deploying onsite or remote physician advisors with a focus on continuous process improvement for its hospital partners. By leveraging Sound Physicians’ infrastructure nationwide, Sound Physicians Advisory Services offers differentiated services:

• Experienced Experts: Practicing hospitalists, intensivists and emergency medicine physicians deliver advisory services. With an unmatched pool of skilled physicians, Sound Physicians is able to scale its services to meet the needs of its hospital partners at a lower cost, with no case minimum commitments.
• Customized Solutions: Options include a turn-key startup with either remote physician advisors to support case managers or onsite physician advisors.
• Holistic Case Review: Direct review of the medical record is provided by licensed physicians, leading to “all-inclusive determinations” encompassing medical necessity, accuracy of documentation and clinical documentation improvement, ensuring regulatory compliance and reinforcing best practices for care coordination.
• Performance Improvement: Sound Physicians Advisory Services will establish a baseline for expected verses observed key clinical and financial metrics. Continuous process improvement, as well as education for physicians, enables the team to deliver value beyond traditional case reviews.

“Our organization embodies a culture of quality, performance improvement and innovation, making Sound Physicians Advisory Services a differentiated service line extension,” said Terry Cameron, Sound Physicians Advisory Services’ President. “By leveraging expert physician advisors, coupled with a continuous feedback process for our partners, our physicians are able to drive meaningful quality improvement for hospitals.”

For additional information about Sound Physicians Advisory Services, please email advisoryservices@soundphysicians.com.

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