Recent news reports have revealed that some non-profit hospital CEOs have received up to 40% increases in salary over the prior year, with some CEO’s compensation hitting the $3 million mark.
Category: Future of Healthcare
Have you made this same mistake? Either by taking a job with idiot savants or, even worse yet, by building a medical group comprised of them?
Profits are bad. Patients are good. Completely logical if you’re a Congresswoman from the San Francisco Bay Area as long as we’re not talking about the tech companies in her congressional district.
For whom are hospitals built? For the health of patients or for the financial health and convenience of its operators and staff?
Many contracted medical groups, both those in the traditional hospital based specialties as well as those in office based specialties, quite improperly view themselves as providing a commodity service. They themselves do not believe that there is a qualitative difference between their group’s “Dr. A” and another group’s “Dr. B,” such that there is no strategic value from obtaining services from their group as […]
The common belief, and it may be quite true, is that change is the greatest cause of stress. But what if it can be used to your group’s advantage? In the mid 1980’s there was a well known West Coast billing service that told its clients that they had only follow three simple rules to […]
Hospitals and the government have decided that physicians must collaborate financially in order to deliver quality healthcare. Of course, that’s a lie.
Do hospital CEOs really want your hospital based group to succeed? As to clinical performance, the answer is “yes.” But as to everything else the answer is a resounding . . . “maybe.”
