Exclusive Contracts

What a $24.3 Million Judgment Tells You About a Potential Tool to Fight Unfair Awards of Exclusive Contracts

An interesting case illustrates a potential new tool in the arsenal to fight against fixed hospital exclusive contracts and, potentially, against the consultants who helped put lipstick on the pig. Many hospital-based groups have been there: the situation in which a longstanding relationship with a hospital, whether or not via exclusive contract, is disrupted, in […]

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Exclusive Contracts

Einstein and Exclusive Contracts

Only slightly tongue in cheek, Einstein’s theory of relativity, E=MC², is also the formula that describes the power of any medical specialty exclusive contract. E = Exclusive (to the exclusion of all other physicians as to the services covered) m = management (of the business function of delivering that service) c² = control and cash.

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