Congress set out to target private equity. Physician-owned groups may become collateral damage. A proposed federal bill would restrict many noncompete, nondisclosure, and nondisparagement agreements that independent medical groups rely on every day.
Governance
Buyer Doesn’t Buy. Steals Your Staff.
When a buyer evaluates a physician group, due diligence reveals where the group’s value truly lies. But what happens if the buyer walks away and later recruits the physicians and staff it identified during the process?
How a Physician’s Side Deal Can Sink Your Future
A side deal entered into by a single physician-owner can have consequences beyond that individual’s interests, and affect the group as a whole.
Medical Group Mergers and Un-Governance – Planning for Failure and Calling it Strategy
Medical group mergers often fail not because of economics, but because of governance. When groups preserve separate identities instead of fully integrating, the result is conflict, inefficiency, and eventual breakdown.
Money Likes Speed. Has Your Group’s Governance Put the Brakes on Your Future?
That may be true on the highway, but it’s patently untrue in terms of your group’s business. In business you need to be able to make decisions quickly and then act on them.
The Fortune Teller – Podcast
From down the street I could see the fortune teller’s shop.
Did she know that I was coming?
You’re Dead. Now What? Succession and Medical Group Leadership
Unfortunately, few groups engage in seriously addressing even the simpler issues of succession in medical group leadership.
Medical Group Termites – Medical Group Minute
structured your relationships with hospitals, referral sources, and other influencers. But did you pay attention to what’s going on inside your practice’s own house?
How Professional Expertise Can Become an Anchor, Not an Advantage – Podcast
Many professionals, from architects to anesthesiologists, from structural engineers to surgeons, make the mistake of focusing solely on developing their skill sets and in delivering those skills to their customers, patients or clients.
Why Document the Value of a Group Member’s Interest? – Medical Group Minute
They say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.