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The Rise of the Portfolio Physician

Mark — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:20:12 +0000

The most successful physicians aren’t depending on one job or one source of income. They’re building out a range of skills, roles, and ownership opportunities so they have real flexibility—and control—over what comes next.

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CVS Announces Plan to Steal Your Patients – Success in Motion

Mark — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:20:00 +0000

Try to enjoy the ride while Mark tells you about a pharmacy’s plan to steal your patients.

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Pharmacies Plan to Take Your Patients

Mark — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:48:34 +0000

Physicians, think that your competitor is Dr. Smith across the street or the hospital and its 185 captive docs? Think longer term.

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Focus on the Future – Medical Group Minute

Mark — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:12:00 +0000

Imagine that your only menu choice, anywhere, is a Happy Meal.

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Why Culture Counts in Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions – Medical Group Minute

Mark — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Bigger is sometimes better, but not always. It’s the right bigger that is better.

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Focus On The Future

Mark — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Imagine that your only menu choice, anywhere, is a Happy Meal. It doesn’t matter whether it’s at McDonald’s or at Chez Prétentieux. The Happy Meal is the only thing on the menu. After all, that’s the way things are done. Back to reality, which, for most, it isn’t much different, at least in connection with...

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Why It’s Easy to Be Knocked Off Course – Podcast

Mark — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:39:32 +0000

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.

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Why It’s Easy to Be Knocked Off Course – Medical Group Minute

Mark — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:49:06 +0000

They say that a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step.

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How Walmart’s Latest Healthcare Announcement Can Be Your Key to Higher Prices – Podcast

Mark — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:30:38 +0000

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, starting now in January 2019, Walmart is requiring employees needing spine surgery to travel to certain contracted hospitals for their surgery.

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How Walmart’s Latest Healthcare Announcement Can Be Your Key to Higher Prices

Mark — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:00:10 +0000

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, beginning in January 2019, Walmart is requiring employees needing spine surgery to travel to certain contracted hospitals for their surgery. The paper reports that among the health systems Walmart will favor are the Mayo Clinic, Geisinger, and Memorial Hermann. So what’s that mean for you,...

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Dr. Robot Will Cut You Now – Podcast

Mark — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:00:46 +0000

Back in the dark ages of medicine, I mean, in 2014, I wrote about competition from Dr. Nurses and Assistant Physicians. A new player has entered the race.

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Dr. Robot Will Cut You Now – Medical Group Minute

Mark — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:00:52 +0000

Back in the dark ages of medicine, I mean, in 2014, I wrote about competition from Dr. Nurses and Assistant Physicians. Now I’m writing about Dr. Robot. Same issue. Just on steroids.

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More on Compensation Plans – Align Rewards With Required Efforts – Podcast

Mark — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:00:28 +0000

Trust is a rare commodity.

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Dr. Robot Will Cut You Now

Mark — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:00:41 +0000

Is robotic surgery the future of healthcare? Explore how automation and AI are transforming surgical care and what it means for physicians.

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The Pharmacy Will See Your Patients Now

Mark — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:00:05 +0000

Chains that operate walk-in clinics and will expand into direct patient care. An opportunity for both physicians and independent pharmacies.

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Why Culture Counts in Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions – Podcast

Mark — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:00:48 +0000

Depending on whom you ask and whose data is available for analysis, 70 to 90 percent of all business combinations fail to increase owner value.

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What You Would Have Learned If Only You’d Attended

Mark — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:00:25 +0000

Deal structure. Governance. M&A.

Those were among the subjects of this past weekend’s Advanced Institute For Anesthesia Practice Management in Las Vegas, the premier national conference on actionable anesthesia business issues.

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The Physician Assistant, No, I Mean Assistant Physician, Will See You – Medical Group Minute

Mark — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:00:55 +0000

Obamacare provides health insurance coverage, but coverage is not access to care. For care, you need physicians and you need to be able to see a physician, the right one, when you require care.

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Is Hospital System-Wide Contracting a Better Strategy?

Mark — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:00:44 +0000

Although the devil’s in the details of any contract, consider the impact of the term and termination provisions in a system-wide exclusive contract.

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Why Culture Counts in Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions

Mark — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:00:57 +0000

Depending on whom you ask and whose data is available for analysis, 70 to 90 percent of all business combinations fail to increase owner value.

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Rewire Your Brain to Become a Medical Entrepreneur

Mark — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:00:11 +0000

Practicing physicians are for the most part, captives of their training. They’ve been taught that taking risks is dangerous.

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Why It’s Easy to Be Knocked Off Course

Mark — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:43:32 +0000

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.

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More on Compensation Plans – Align Rewards With Required Efforts – Medical Group Minute

Mark — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:00:30 +0000

Trust is a rare commodity.

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Independent Anesthesia Group Success in a Segmented Market – Podcast

Mark — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:00:10 +0000

Independent anesthesia groups must develop strategies tied to the segmenting market.

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Independent Anesthesia Group Success in a Segmented Market

Mark — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:00:18 +0000

It’s estimated that the large national anesthesia companies have around 10 percent of the market. They certainly are on a drive to expand. To a significant degree, this expansion is driven by private equity and in some cases publicly raised money. But outside investors will only stay in the game as long as there are profits. When...

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Develop a True Medical Group Business Structure

Mark — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:00:39 +0000

If it loses one contact, its only contract, your group has lost its business life.

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Don’t Worry About Your Future – The Hospital Has it All Planned – Podcast

Mark — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:00:11 +0000

The hospital has written the script for your future. Don't like it? Grab your own pen.

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Business Worth Having

Mark — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:30:08 +0000

The market for anesthesia services is changing quickly. The trends of hospital-centric healthcare and commoditized staffing services masquerading as true groups are combining to form a maelstrom that will take many local groups, as well as a significant number of facilities and the staffing services themselves, to rock bottom.

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Is Cheap the New Loyal?

Mark — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:12:55 +0000

Until recently, hospitals granting exclusivity to a group demanded exclusivity, or a close approximation, from the group in return. Their position was based on the fact that they perceived the group to be of such high value that they did not want to share it with another facility.

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More on Compensation Plans – Align Rewards With Required Efforts

Mark — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:41:21 +0000

Design physician compensation plans that align rewards with required efforts, driving performance and organizational success.

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