Franchise models exist in medicine as well as in hamburgers. For example, in the urgent care center market.
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Franchising as a Healthcare Business Model
Physician group leaders often mistakenly think that their options for business organization and for expansion are limited to the models traditionally found in medicine. But that’s simply not the case.
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As hospitals build employed staff models, as they build ACO networks, and as they influence referrals within those “staffs,” will the quality of care go up, or will it go down?
An Important Lesson From the Insurance Industry – Medical Group Minute
Over the course of the past decade or so, carriers have ratcheted down payment and have begun a concerted shift away from compensating independent professionals to employing them directly at greatly reduced levels.
An Important Lesson From the Insurance Industry
What’s happening to insurance agents is already hitting physicians. Here’s how compensation is collapsing—and what doctors must do next.
Avoiding the Bureaucratic Web – Podcast
Highly successful medical groups operate in concert with bureaucratic hospitals but avoid the taint of bureaucracy themselves.