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Hospital-Centric Healthcare
All Hospitals Should Be Physician Controlled – Podcast
Why should hospitals be run by nonphysicians?
Hostess Twinkies and Hospital-Centric Healthcare
Hungry for sweet junk food? I just checked, and a box of 50 Hostess Twinkies is selling on Amazon for over $95. I haven’t had a Twinkie or a Hostess cupcake for over 20 years, but I’m obviously in the minority as hundreds of thousands of people, or perhaps more, are going crazy over the…
Will the Anesthesiologist Be the Only Physician in the O.R.? – Podcast
How unlikely is it that in twenty years, the only physician actually in the O.R. will be the anesthesiologist?
Will the Anesthesiologist Be the Only Physician in the Room?
How unlikely is it that in twenty years, the only physician actually in the O.R. will be the anesthesiologist? As surgery becomes more robotic, what difference will it make if the surgeon is actually present? In fact, as surgery becomes more robotic, will surgeons continue to be physicians or will they be specially trained technicians?…
The Walking Dead: Is Your Group Actually in Business?
You have been coming into work every day for years. Now there’s no need to come in tomorrow because your group no longer exists. You see, although your group collected over $20 million over the past year, and you and your fellow partners earned a tidy sum, it turns out that your group was simply…
Beware the Government-Hospital Complex
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. To the best of my memory, the first time I saw a hospital…
Breaking the Physician Hospital Paradigm – Podcast
The paradigm for physician hospital relations is completely at odds with society’s other trends.
Potentially Profitable Interplay Between Exclusive Contracts and ACOs
There is a complex interplay between hospital-based group exclusive contracts and ACO-entity payment mechanisms. In addition to making certain that money flows into the group, as opposed to around it, obviously a protective move, there are significant planning opportunities in the play off between the managed care contracting provisions of exclusive contracts and the terms…
RFP – Really Foolish Proposition?
Learn how savvy hospital and buyer tactics weaponize leverage—and how physician groups can recognize and counter fulcrum‑based strategies.