Galileo worked throughout his scientific career with pendulums to answer the ultimate question. Could you link a pendulum to a clock to allow it to keep accurate time?

Similar to Galileo's search for balance, Pendulum Healthcare Development Corporation connects with physicians and local delivery systems to create provider-driven managed care organizations. Using a balanced approach and considering the needs of all stakeholders involved, PHDC works to achieve the following objectives in communities throughout the country.

• To rebuild and enhance provider-sponsored health plans so that they continue to serve as the local health benefit option to the community
• To maintain local choice and control of health care access and treatment protocols
• To reward physicians for health care decisions that impact quality and efficiency in a positive way
• To use the dollars generated through increased efficiency in health plan operations in three ways:
• Provide an equity/ownership opportunity for physicians in the health plan with savings generated through their development adherance to treatment protocols
• Return dollars to investors with gain on their initial investment and potential for long term involvement
• Redeploy a portion of the dollars back into the community in which the health plan operates to expand services or benefits