In terms of business deals, contracting, and negotiating, physicians often ask me, “are you certain it’s going to work?
Author: Mark
Surgeon and Controlled Companies Pay $4.5 Million Settlement Months After Medtronic Pays $9.21 Million Tip (Settlement) For Meals at the Surgeon’s Restaurant – Podcast
Well, the story as told by the Government is a familiar one: They allege that the events were payments to benefit Dr. Asfora and induce him to use Medtronic’s SynchroMed II intrathecal infusion pumps.
Was the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Surprise Medical Billing and U.S. Anesthesia Partners v. UnitedHealthcare – Medical Group Minute
There’s nothing inherently fair in this notion of paying a purported “fair fee”. If there were, insurers would never have been in favor of it.
Thinking Your Way Out of the Compensation System Box – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses pitfalls of the current status quo relation to compensation systems.
UnitedHealth Pushing Business to ASCs and Outpatient Imaging
Laugh about it or cry about it, the bottom line is the same: they are cutting costs by moving all cases that can be moved out of the hospital out of the hospital. Where does that leave you?
Why Blindly Copying Rarely Works – Podcast
It was perhaps the funniest healthcare headline ever: “Zimmer Biomet to combine spine, dental businesses to form company called NewCo.”
The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison – Medical Group Minute
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
Envision Healthcare Sues UnitedHealthcare in Ongoing War of Attrition – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the everlong legal battle between two industry giants.
What Every Physician Needs to Know About a California Anesthesia Group’s Bankruptcy
With the tip of the hat to T.S. Eliot, the world for Community Regional Anesthesia Medical Group (CRAMG) ended on June 16, 2021, not with a bang but a whimper.
Insurers Help Themselves By Helping You Help Patients…At Your ASC – Medical Group Minute
Procedures that previously could be performed, meaning performed and reimbursed, only in a hospital setting, whether inpatient or outpatient, can now be performed in an ASC.