Some leaders of hospital-based groups, and I use the term “leader” broadly, believe that their groups are a function of the hospital. If the hospital no longer wants to contract with them, then that would be it.
Hospital-Centric Healthcare
Who Is Really in Charge of Your Medical Group? – Medical Group Minute
Some leaders of hospital-based groups, and I use the term “leader” broadly, believe that their groups are a function of the hospital.
Don’t Confuse Strategy With Tactics (or With Garbage) – Podcast
Several years ago, I read a review in a magazine for consultants of a new book by an “expert” who advises that since business now moves at the speed of light, the “old” strategic question of “where do you want to be X years from now?” must now be “where do you want to be a few days from now?”
Physician Discontent with Hospital Employment Beginning to Boil – Medical Group Minute
Perhaps it’s only anecdotal, but the several hospital executives and well-connected hospital-affiliated physician group leaders I’ve spoken to within the past few weeks tell the same story: a spate of resignations by hospital-employed physicians.
All Hospitals Should Be Physician Controlled
It will be decades until society swings back away from “it takes a village” to “it takes a strong individual” and the price we’ll pay in the interim will eventually be rationing, death counseling, and other warm and fuzzy attributes of a so-called communal society. Heck, this makes its opposite, the so-called “greed” of rugged individualists, seem timid in comparison.
The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison – Podcast
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
There’s Never Been Safety in Hospital Employment – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark for a reminder about the danger of a “sure thing” as it pertains to hospital-based employment.
Stars Don’t Audition. Why Are You Responding to That RFP? – Podcast
Actors scramble to audition for a part, but stars choose from offered scripts. So why are you responding to that RFP?
Physician Discontent With Hospital Employment Beginning to Boil – Podcast
Perhaps it’s only anecdotal, but the several hospital executives and well-connected hospital-affiliated physician group leaders I’ve spoken within the past few weeks tell the same story: a spate of resignations by hospital-employed physicians.
Deteriorated Insulation From the Hassles of Running a Medical Practice – Medical Group Minute
The layers of bureaucracy that were supposedly meant to insulate the doctors from the “hassles of running a medical practice” out hassled the actual “hassles of running a medical practice.” Go figure.