What Some of Your Colleagues Are Saying About Us

Excellent on-call specialty coverage typically comes at a premium. It’s both hard and expensive to retain specialists 24/7/365. Their absence can create clinical inefficiencies and risk, decrease hospital revenue and profits, and dull your competitive edge.

Specialists On Call provides superb around-the-clock, on-call specialty coverage at an affordable cost through specialists that are of a caliber often difficult to find.

As a result, affiliated and staff physicians also benefit from our services. We stabilize their lifestyles by relieving the burden of on-call coverage; physician “burnout” is lessened. Because we deal only with acute cases and never bill insurance, the reimbursement opportunities for local physician practices remain intact.

The benefits are evident:

Enhances care quality

• Provides timely intervention from experienced specialists
• Increases care consistency
• Improves patient outcomes
• Decreases complication rates
• Reduces patient length of stay

Increases staff support

• Provides immediate 24/7/365 specialty recommendations for staff
• Delivers fully documented written recommendations
• Facilitates easy patient handoff to local physicians
• Relieves on-call coverage burden

Lowers cost

• Eliminates exorbitant stipends for on-call coverage
• Assumes malpractice expense—we cover the cost for our consultations
• Requires no capital expense—very little upfront cost

Improves competitive advantage

• Improves patient flow through the emergency department
• Increases retention of ED patients and reduces transfers
• Reduces ambulance diversion
• Decreases risk associated with acute specialty diagnoses
• Serves as a recruiting tool for local physicians

Specialists On Call allows hospitals to deliver excellent specialty care 24/7/365 at an affordable cost.