It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting.
Hospital-Centric Healthcare
Hospitals No Longer Like to Make the Bed
Who likes to make the bed? Apparently not hospitals, because an increasing number are building new “bedless” facilities. Reception area/waiting room? Check! Operating rooms? Check! Patient monitoring? Check! Inpatient rooms? Heck no! All of the overnight rooms are the patients’ own rooms at their homes. There’s no need to build them. There’s no need to staff…
Bamboozled Over the “Cure” for Balance Billing – Medical Group Minute
I just read an article on Modern Healthcare’s website about balance billing in the out-of-network context.
Beware the Government-Hospital Complex – Podcast
The first time that I saw a computer there were two in the room. One of them took up most of the south side of a floor of the Computer Science Building and the other took up most of the north side.
Who Is Really in Charge of Your Medical Group? – Podcast
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, they’d simply pull the plug on the group.
Thoughts on Surgery Center Development and Operations – Podcast
You probably already know that it is my firm belief that hospitals, at least as we know them, are basically dead. They just don’t know it yet. What I mean is that the majority of surgery cases are going to be shifting out of hospitals.
Physician Talks Out of His (not)Mouth – Brags of Kickbacks
It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting. There he was at a table seventeen feet away, talking to another man. At first I thought that they were on a date, but then I realized that “G” was trying to charm “X”…
Thoughts on Surgery Center Development and Operations – Success in Motion
Ride along as Mark talks about some issues pertaining to developing and operating a surgery center.
From Me to We: From Physician to Provider – Medical Group Minute
The tides come in and out, ties get wider then narrower then wider again, and society cycles round and round from “me” to “we.”
Bamboozled Over the “Cure” for Balance Billing – Podcast
I just read an article on Modern Healthcare’s website about balance billing in the out-of-network context.