Professional Emergency Physicians

Name

Professional Emergency Physicians

Legal name

Professional Emergency Physicians, P.C.

Website

https://professionalemergencyphysicians.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Physician Staffing Services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Offices of Physicians (62111), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (6221)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Hospitals (8060)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospital-Based Emergency Departments (EDs) (HLAFADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dispatch, Communications & Medical Control Centers (PSAP/ECC) (HLAFANAK), Crisis Intervention & Emergency Planning/Response Coordination (HSABAIAN), Hospital-Operated Urgent Care Centers (HLAFADAC)

Keywords

• Emergency physician staffing
• Emergency department coverage
• Hospital emergency medicine
• EMS medical direction
• Advanced practice providers

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Wayne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Emergency Medical Services Billing: PEP generates revenue by providing emergency physician and physician assistant staffing to hospitals, billing for medical services rendered to patients. Revenue is derived from insurance reimbursements, patient copays, and hospital contractual agreements. The group handles its own billing and coding operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Professional Emergency Physicians (PEP) is an independent emergency medicine physician group practice that provides 24/7 emergency department physician and physician assistant staffing to hospitals across northeast Indiana. The group staffs 13 hospital emergency departments under long-term exclusive contracts, primarily with Parkview Health System, and also delivers oversight of EMS programs, point-of-care ultrasound, simulation training, and risk management services.

Product overview

Professional Emergency Physicians (PEP) is a single-site emergency medicine physician group practice, not a software technology company. The organization provides emergency department staffing services through a unified model of 68 full-time emergency physicians, 45 physician assistants, and 7 administrative/billing staff across 13 hospital emergency departments in northeast Indiana. The core offering consists of emergency physician staffing (with Emergency Ultrasound and EMS Specialty sub-services), EMS program oversight, risk management services, and simulation training. PEP operates as a traditional medical practice with no software products, AI capabilities, or technology platform offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Department Physician Staffing
• Parkview EMS Program Oversight
• Emergency Ultrasound Services
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Specialty
• Simulation Training Lab
• Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds
• Risk Management Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 200,000+ annual patient visits across all facilities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Parkview Health SystemcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPEP has been the exclusive Emergency Physician coverage group for Parkview Hospital since 1972, expanding over 50+ years to provide 24/7 coverage for all Parkview Health emergency departments. PEP physicians serve on multiple hospital committees including stroke, credentialing, surgery, sepsis, quality, and medical staff administration. Multiple physicians serve as medical staff president and chair of committees.
• Cameron Memorial Community HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPEP provides emergency physician staffing for Cameron Memorial Community Hospital, averaging 18,000 patient visits per year. This partnership extends PEP's reach beyond the Parkview Health System to serve additional Northeast Indiana communities.
• Parkview Mirro Research CentersupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPEP partners with Parkview Mirro Research Center to offer monthly simulation sessions for physicians and physician assistants, covering airway management, ultrasound, trauma resuscitation, medical resuscitation, intraosseous infusion, and central venous access procedures.
• Parkview EMS (Samaritan Transport Program)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPEP oversees Parkview EMS program including the Samaritan transport program with two helicopters and a ground MICU, Parkview Community Paramedicine program, and 23 ground ambulance units. PEP EMS directors provide medical control across all EMS subsystems.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Vituity: Physician partnership providing emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and acute care staffing. Directly comparable to PEP in business model and clinical service lines.
• TeamHealth: National emergency medicine physician staffing group that contracts with hospitals to provide ED coverage. Directly comparable to PEP as a competing provider of hospital-based emergency physician services, though at a national scale.
• Envision Physician Services (now part of Envision Healthcare): Large national physician staffing company with a significant emergency medicine practice. Competes directly with PEP for hospital ED contracts and offers similar 24/7 emergency physician coverage.
• US Acute Care Solutions (USACS): Physician-owned emergency medicine, hospitalist, and critical care staffing group. Directly comparable to PEP as a competitor for hospital ED contracts with a similar ownership model.
• Emergency Medicine Physicians (EMP): Physician-owned emergency medicine group staffing hospital EDs across multiple states. Comparable to PEP in providing dedicated ED physician coverage and EMS integration.
• Schumacher Clinical Partners (SCP Health): National physician group providing emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and urgent care staffing. Competes with PEP for hospital ED staffing contracts across regional markets.
• ApolloMD: Physician-owned group providing emergency medicine, hospitalist, and anesthesia services. Comparable to PEP as a private, physician-led ED staffing partner for hospitals.
• Integrative Emergency Services (IES): Physician-owned emergency medicine group serving hospitals in Texas and surrounding regions. Comparable to PEP in providing exclusive ED coverage contracts and EMS medical direction.

Broad incumbents

• Parkview Health System: Major regional health system that is PEP's primary customer and contract counterpart. Not a direct competitor, but the system partner is structurally relevant to understanding PEP's scale and trajectory.

Others

• R1 RCM: Healthcare revenue cycle management company. Adjacent rather than competitive—relevant to PEP because physician billing and coding operations (handled in-house by PEP) are the type of service R1 provides to provider groups.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/professional-emergency-physicians-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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