"The Tompkins Group brought vision, experience, tenacity, and enormous energy to Helix. With their help, we arrived at a new vision for the company which focuses and coordinates our efforts across the System as a whole."

Michael Merson
President and CEO
Helix Health System
Baltimore, Maryland

As managed care organizations began to acquire market share in central Maryland, Baltimore’s Helix Health System found itself in a difficult position: the disparate managed care strategies of its individual hospitals were confusing to its payers.

The Tompkins Group led Helix executives, physicians, and Board members through an education, planning and implementation process that produced an independent physician organization consisting of:

• an MSO,
• a group practice, and
• two IPAs, one for primary care doctors and the other for specialists.

Named HelixCare, this organization successfully addressed existing market and internal cultural realities and positions Helix for success in the future, when capitation becomes the norm.

After budgeting $30 million in start-up capital and hiring a nationally known physician executive as its CEO, HelixCare is now ready to compete aggressively in a burgeoning managed care market.