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
Thanksgiving — Be Grateful for Competitors Like This.
There are stupid questions. And there are certainly stupid statements. But even so, they often present a kernel of wisdom for your taking.
Who Really Needs Whom? Hospitals and Employed Physicians.
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…
Switzerland as a Thinking Tool for Medical Group Structure
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.
Why You Must Understand Inter-Contractual Dissonance and the Shifting of Power
People are internally inconsistent. Many contracts in the healthcare sphere are inconsistent, too. The first causes grief, the second shifts power.
Federal Trade Commission Seek to Reimpose Nationwide Ban on Non-Competes
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”.
Federal District Court Finds Whistleblower Actions Unconstitutional
What if someone blows the whistle but it makes no sound?
Leaving Big Medicine? Look Before You Leap.
Fueled by the failure of large medical groups, the disappointments of hospital employment, and the ratcheting down of care by private equity…
“I Thought They Loved Me!” Is No Defense For the Spurned and Burned “Friendly Physician”
The “friendly physician.” Boy, is that’s a term of art or, perhaps better said, of artifice.
What Might Be the No. 1 Mistake in Exclusive Contract and Stipend Negotiation.
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.