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Category: The Business of Healthcare
Discussing the business side of all things healthcare.
The hospital approaches you and says that they are building an ACO – won’t you join with them and become an employee of their sponsored foundation or medical group?
Many predicted that the financial behemoths run by the smartest guys in the room would swallow up every physician on the planet.
Your group needs to portray a unified image.
I hate it when people lie to me.
What is your back up plan in the event that your preventive action fails?
What’s a medical group worth? Ah, one of the eternal questions. Okay, maybe not, but it can be an important one.
Hospitals, especially in their rush to spend money acquiring physician practices in order to participate, were all for the concept of value based care.
Years ago, one of my former partners had a case in which a stock broker built up a huge book of business, only to have his clients “reassigned” to a famous heavy-hitter at the firm that took over the brokerage.
Why hospitals are destroying themselves, and setting their CEOs up for termination, when they bring in national groups and “contract management companies.”