Here, courtesy of Tenet Healthcare and two terminated cardiologists, is a lesson about firing physicians . . . and, when not to.
Category: Employment
The healthcare labor market shifts with time but there will always be a place for entrepreneurial physicians and other healthcare providers who seek to develop and expand their independent ventures
There will always be a place for entrepreneurial physicians and other healthcare providers who seek to develop and expand their independent ventures.
I recently read an article about a physician who had sold his practice to a hospital. The physician was quoted as having stated that he had grown disenchanted with running the business end of his own practice, thus his agreement to “have my practice managed by” the hospital.
What will happen to your hospital contract or to your hospital employment relationship in the event the hospital merges? Will you still be the contract holder? Will you still have a job?
As much actual tension as there is between physician groups and ACOs, they share a common weakness.
Models. No, not the skinny kind in a magazine. But conceptual frameworks. Like global warming “models” or even Obamacare.
In a personal services business, from medical groups to acute care hospitals, what’s more important, your people or your tangible assets?
I’ve been thinking today about Pareto-type distribution, you know the “80/20 rule,” and physician employment.
I’ve been thinking today about Pareto-type distribution, you know the “80/20 rule,” and physician employment.