CHS lost approximately $2 billion dollars in 2017 on revenues of $3.1 billion.
Hospital-Centric Healthcare
You Have a Spy in Your Organization – Medical Group Minute
There is an unwitting lurker inside your organization. Do you have any clue what it is?
National Group Loses Business Deal, Will 100 Physicians Lose Their Livelihood? – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses a the issues related to a national anesthesia group’s loss of a system-wide exclusive contract.
The Cancer of Consensus – Podcast
Leaders must lead. They cannot bog themselves down in the morass of consensus building.
Learn About Negotiation From a Not So Dead Opossum – Podcast
Listen as Mark tells how an opossum fooled his dog Larry, and its immediately actionable lesson about negotiation.
Washington State Takes Antitrust Aim at Aggressive Health System Competition
The unfettered growth of hosptial-centric medicine, usually touted as bringing “better care,” “enhanced safety,” and “more efficiency,” often brings less caring care, hospital acquired infections, and . . . control over the market with its “efficient” byproduct, higher prices. The growth of hospital systems can be seen as a reaction to the fact that procedures…
Learn About Negotiation From a Not So Dead Opossum
By playing dead, the opossum gave Larry a win. But, and here’s the key, it was a win that cost the opossum nothing.
Payor Agreements and Hidden False Claims Act and Criminal Traps
It was a neighborhood like many others. Neat, but not too neat front yards. Newspapers brought in by 8:00 a.m. and maybe by 10:00 a.m. on weekends. And, all was within the bounds of normal, giving, of course, wide birth to the meaning of the word, for this is nonfiction, not fiction. But with one…
Discrimination Against Physicians as Hospital Owners Could End Soon
Since the beginning of this year, two bills, companion legislation in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, have been introduced to end discrimination against physicians and improve care for patients.
Quantum Computing and Medical Group Management – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark and learn what lesson quantum computing has for medical group management.