Fear of rising healthcare costs is being used to attack exclusive anesthesia agreements. Similar arguments can be used to attack other service department agreements: exclusive radiology agreements, exclusive pathology agreements and exclusive emergency medicine agreements. The argument goes as follows: Hospital exclusive contracts are anticompetitive and therefore allow one group to control pricing. Hospital coverage stipends […]
Category: Exclusive Contracts
If a hospital’s demands on your group have markedly changed but the compensation for your services has not kept pace with the market, it’s not only unfair, it’s immoral, that you continue to eat the burden. Proper planning at the time of exclusive contracting includes developing a strategy to terminate and addresses the issue of what […]
