Over the past decade or so, hospitals have spent countless hundreds of millions of dollars “aligning” physicians. This so-called alignment has included acquiring physician practices, employing physicians in states without corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and, in states where hospitals can’t directly employ, employment through captive medical groups or foundations. Hospitals claim that the idea…
As what were hospital cases now flow out to independent ASCs, hospitals are begging to be aligned with physicians. But why allow a hospital to be a partner in your ASC deal?
CHS lost billions while CEO compensation rose—an extreme case of misaligned incentives in hospital leadership that leadership must avoid.
There is an unwitting lurker inside your organization. Do you have any clue what it is?
Ride along with Mark as he discusses a the issues related to a national anesthesia group’s loss of a system-wide exclusive contract.
Leaders must lead. They cannot bog themselves down in the morass of consensus building.
Listen as Mark tells how an opossum fooled his dog Larry, and its immediately actionable lesson about negotiation.
Washington State targets anti-competitive behavior, signaling a broader shift in antitrust enforcement across the healthcare landscape.
By playing dead, the opossum gave Larry a win. But, and here’s the key, it was a win that cost the opossum nothing.
Hidden language in payor agreements can trigger False Claims Act liability and criminal risk—understand and avoid the traps.