ChristopherRichterMDFACEP

Summary

• I am an EM trained physician working as an executive in a regional non-profit healthcare system based in Columbia, MD. The system currently has 11 large hospitals in Baltimore and Washington, DC and includes an EM residency at Georgetown as well as residencies in IM and fellowships in CC, IM, EM, Radiology. In my current role, I am one of 4 VPMOs who divide up the Medical Group which employs nearly 3,000 providers. My area of responsibility is Hospital Based Service and includes Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Pathology and Radiology. This includes about 1,200 providers and roughly 70 administrative staff.
  The ED volume is 450k visits annually. EM has approximately 260 providers. EM also houses telehealth and we have expanded this service during the pandemic to include teletriage, urgent care, consultations in HM and UC, cardiology consultation and primary care visits as well as embarked on remote monitoring and early discharge follow up.
  All HM providers in the system were brought into MMG and we have developed a new administrative structure for HM. We rolled out a new compensation model for the system just before the pandemic. I am reorganizing the clinical practice council and developing a set of dashboards for system wide use. Like EM, I am responsible for all aspects of HM including budget development and P and L. HM has approximately 300 providers.
  Critical Care is in the early stages of service line development and is currently siloed. All providers have been transitioned this year into the medical group with new contracts and we are developing a new compensation model currently.
  Pulmonary medicine is in the early stages of a 5 year strategic plan and we are in the process of evaluating several practices for acquisition.
  Radiology is a mature service line with a strong service line leader and is growing rapidly.
  We organized pathology into a service line this past year and are rolling out a new compensation