Architecting Your Physician Workforce

No. OSMD does not provide short-term or temporary physician staffing. OSMD is designed around long-term, permanent physician workforce relationships in which hospitals contract directly with participating physicians.

Our goal is to help hospitals establish durable physician teams and clinical programs rather than fill isolated temporary assignments.

OSMD can work with community hospitals, medium-sized hospitals, and larger health systems.

The most important consideration is whether there is sufficient recurring physician need to support a meaningful long-term OSMD relationship. As a general guideline, OSMD partnerships typically involve the equivalent of at least two physicians working each day on an ongoing basis.

Those physicians may practice within one specialty or across multiple specialties.

No.

OSMD may provide most or all of the physicians required for a service line, but OSMD can also provide a stable portion of the workforce alongside an existing hospital-employed physician group.

The appropriate structure depends on the hospital’s existing medical staff and long-term workforce needs.

Yes.

The recurring physician requirement supporting an OSMD relationship can be distributed across several specialties rather than concentrated in one clinical service.

This allows hospitals to address multiple physician and service-line priorities through one broader OSMD relationship.

Current OSMD physician services include Hospital Medicine; Pulmonary & Critical Care; Cardiology; Trauma Surgery; Primary Care; and Urgent Care.

Additional physician services are evaluated individually based on hospital need, physician availability, market conditions, infrastructure, and the ability to create a sustainable long-term program.

Yes.

OSMD can work with hospitals facing physician turnover, persistent vacancies, recruitment difficulties, lack of continuity, or instability within an established clinical program.

The objective is to create a more durable physician workforce and strengthen long-term relationships among physicians, hospital leadership, and the medical staff.

Yes.

OSMD can work with hospital leadership to evaluate and support the physician workforce needed to establish, restructure, or expand a clinical service.

This may include physician recruitment, workforce planning, onboarding, physician integration, and long-term program development.

Traditional staffing models commonly focus on filling individual openings or temporary coverage needs.

OSMD is designed around long-term physician workforce and service-line strategy. Participating physicians contract directly with hospitals, while OSMD focuses on physician recruitment, workforce stability, continuity, hospital-physician alignment, clinical program development, and the professional infrastructure that can help support long-term physician relationships.

OSMD-affiliated physicians may have access to resources through OSMD and independent third-party relationships, including medical malpractice resources, health insurance resources, banking and lending, physician mortgage programs, wealth architecture, credentialing and onboarding support, physician logistics where applicable, and other professional resources relevant to independent practice.

Many of these services are optional and are provided independently.

Recruiting physicians requires more than offering compensation and clinical work.

Physicians may also need malpractice coverage, health insurance resources, banking and financial services, administrative support, and other professional infrastructure.

Access to a broader support ecosystem can help a hospital create a more compelling recruitment proposition, reduce practical barriers for physicians, and support longer-term retention.

OSMD maintains relationships with independent medical malpractice providers that may offer physician-focused coverage options to affiliated physicians.

Physicians independently evaluate the available coverage and enter into their own relationship with the insurer.

OSMD does not underwrite malpractice insurance or guarantee the suitability of any particular policy.

No.

Worker classification depends on the overall facts and circumstances of the relationship and applicable law.

No individual feature of OSMD’s model determines whether a physician should be classified as an employee or independent contractor. Hospitals should rely on their own legal and tax advisors regarding classification.

No.

OSMD works collaboratively with hospital executives, medical staff leadership, clinical teams, and physicians.

The objective is to strengthen physician-hospital alignment and clinical programs, not replace the hospital’s established medical staff leadership structure.

No.

Every hospital differs in patient volume, physician resources, specialties, recruitment environment, clinical priorities, and long-term objectives.

OSMD evaluates each organization individually. The specific workforce design is developed around those needs, while the detailed operating methods remain proprietary to OSMD.

Yes.

An OSMD partnership does not require a hospital to eliminate or replace its employed physicians.

OSMD-affiliated physicians can work alongside hospital-employed physicians as part of a broader clinical team when that structure supports the hospital’s long-term workforce needs.

It begins with a discussion about the hospital’s physician workforce, existing medical staff, service-line priorities, recruitment challenges, and long-term objectives.

OSMD then evaluates whether the organization has an appropriate recurring physician need and whether the OSMD model can provide a sustainable long-term solution.