After having represented medical groups with a particular emphasis on hospital-based groups for 30 years, it has become strikingly clear that what distinguishes the most successful groups, from the great majority of the mediocre.
Author: Mark
There are stupid questions. And there are certainly stupid statements. But even so, they often present a kernel of wisdom for your taking.
By the early years of the 20th Century, hospitals became large healthcare factories due to the size and expense of what was then cutting edge technology…
Medical group organizers generally confine their entity’s business structure to a corporate or partnership type entity and then proceed to conduct business through it.
People are internally inconsistent. Many contracts in the healthcare sphere are inconsistent, too. The first causes grief, the second shifts power.
The volleys in this battle move slowly–think pendulum as opposed to ping-pong. And right now, despite the appeal, the pendulum is still on the side of “state law controls”.
What if someone blows the whistle but it makes no sound? The federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) traces its history back to the Civil War, a time at which unscrupulous vendors sold defective goods such as blankets and boots to the Union army. The result was to adopt legislation, the FCA, both penalizing the filing […]
Fueled by the failure of large medical groups, the disappointments of hospital employment, and the ratcheting down of care by private equity, physicians are increasingly seeking alternatives to their current practice arrangements. Many, alone or with others, are exploring the creation of new practices under their own ownership and control. In this first article in […]
The “friendly physician.” Boy, is that’s a term of art or, perhaps better said, of artifice.
There is no such thing as static demand for services over a contract’s multi-year term, and it’s a fool’s bet, yet one many take, to believe that one can place a set value on total fair market value.
