Sound Physicians
Company Name: Sound Physicians
Address:
1498 Pacific Avenue
Suite 400
Tacoma, Washington 98402
United States
1888-317-3497
Contact Information:
Michael Rose
RN, BSN
Director of Marketing, Telemedicine
206-669-8111
mirose@soundphysicians.com
Year Incorporated or Founded:
2001
State Incorporated or Founded:
Washington
Healthcare Model:
Medical specialty service provider to healthcare providers
Corporate Structure:
Private for-profit
Description of Services:
As a provider-founded and led organization, Sound Physicians offers Skilled Nursing Facilities a cost-effective Telemedicine solution that combines our national network of board-certified Hospitalists and a Telemedicine platform that can be rapidly implemented to assist your clinical staff to care for your residents. As a physician practice, rather than a tech company, Sound Physicians provides access to Tele-hospitalists with the ideal skillset to deliver higher quality of care, improved patient outcomes, and benefits from reduced readmissions. SoundTele-hospitalists have the ideal skillset for intervening in the SNF and managing ED transfers. To assist you during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, we have developed a model to deploy our Telemedicine program in your facility within 72 hours. This Rapid Deployment Model can provide full Tele-hospitalist coverage for nights and weekends as well as escalation coverage for surges, 7x24.
Teleservices:
Hospitalist, Long-term care, Mobile health (mHealth)
Currently providing services in:
California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Washington, Wyoming
Healthcare professionals have licenses in:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia
Teleproviders are physically located in:
Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Entities company currently partners or is willing to partner with:
Accountable Care Organizations; Rural hospitals; Urban/suburban Hospitals; Nursing homes; Skilled nursing facilities
How many patients / direct consumers is your company serving:
50-99
Number full-time MD/DO telehealth professionals:
61-70
After licensing and credentialing, average time to initiate services to new partner/customer:
Less than 1 month
Telemedicine systems used to connect to customers:
Proprietary but we can interface to most other platforms
Electronic health records (EHR) incorporated in services:
No
How EHR interfaces with the EHR of the referring/consulting site:
We require that our Tele-hospitalists be trained and given access to the SNF's EMR, otherwise, documentation, orders, prescriptions are entered into our solution and electronically communicated to the SNF in a HIPAA-compliant manner. Interfacing to referring/consulting site is under consideration for possible future development.
Wait time for consultation for emergency services:
Other (please specify)
Emergency Services wait time other:
This depends upon the urgency of the request and can be anywhere between 1 minute to 60 minutes.
Wait time for consultation for nonemergent services:
Within 24 hours
Number teleconsults performed 2018:
13,670
Number teleconsults performed 2019:
88,073
Provides Billing Services:
No
Other Payers Billed:
Billing is handled solely by the customer
Describe how your teleproviders are recruited and selected:
Our dedicated recruiting team recruits nationwide to Sound's clinical workforce in order to consistently drive value and performance to our partners. Our turnover rate is 15% lower than the national average and we also have a wholly-owned temporary staffing subsidiary, Echo Locum Tenens, that also supports our telemedicine recruitment efforts.
Company Payment Model:
Subscription
Complies with HIPAA and HITECH:
Yes
Minimum monthly consultation requirement:
no minimum
Minimum number of hospital beds:
no minimum
Minimum number of ICU or NICU beds:
no minimum
Joined the Directory: 04/01/2020
Information Last Updated: 04/13/2020