From the 1950’s through the 1990’s success was about doing what was always done – the actual delivery of care. So the better groups delivered better care. If a group was “broken” the result was that its level of care dipped. The fix was to return it to the standard of working well, that is,…
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Trust But Verify – Medical Group Minute
One of your group’s employees, Dr. Bob, wants to borrow $10,000…
Why It’s Easy to Be Knocked Off Course
They say that a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step. Note that the saying doesn’t discriminate between heading in the right direction or the wrong direction.
Building Value Within Your Medical Group
If you were going to sell your house, you’d make sure that it’s put into decent or even prime shape before listing it, right?
Eighteen Wheelers and the Medical Group Acquisition Meme – Podcast
Eighteen wheelers speed down the highway, the second or third or fourth following way too closely for my comfort as they are sucked along, “drafting” off the the truck in front of them.
Ready for the Olympics?
Every story has at least two sides. The question is, where does the truth lie? If you can do something, broadcast it to the world. If you can’t, don’t lie. The truth catches up with you whether your group is small, large or somewhere in between.
Why Play By the Rules?
The rules are set by those who’ve come before you. Perhaps by those folks who have never tried. Or, those who tried and failed and quit. Or those who succeeded and made it. A strange committee, you say? No, they have so much in common: none of them want you to succeed, or, at least, to succeed too easily.
Karl Marx, M.D. – Podcast
For the most part, physicians are stuck in a Marxian world of reimbursement.
Why There’s Always More
There’s always more that you can do to improve your business’s health. To strengthen its position. To improve its chances of survival and beyond.
The King Is Dead. Long Live The ???
On one of those “this month in history” sites, I learned that January 2014 is the 221st anniversary of the execution of the French King Louis XVI. From exulted to executed in one or two, depending on whose version of history you choose, chops. A similar fate befalls many businesses. Consider, for example, the changes…