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Podcast
The (Not So) Obvious Alternative to Cutbacks – Podcast
If yours is an average group, you’re doing more work for less pay.
Office Sharing: Turning Share Mates Into Cell Mates – Podcast
Office-based specialists, from ENT’s to urologists, often enter into suite sharing arrangements. No problem! That is, until they make it one.
Medical Group Management – Podcast
Properly done, medical group management is neither a collaborative nor a unanimous process. It is a leadership decision.
Bedless Hospitals and Physician Opportunities – Podcast
If, as I’ve written before and as we’re now beginning to see, a hospital need not have beds, then what’s the difference between a hospital (which physicians can’t develop as a Medicare facility) and an ASC?
What a Marshmallow Says About Your Medical Group’s Future – Podcast
Would you rather have one marshmallow now, or two tomorrow?
Do They Have the Power to Say Yes? – Podcast
Want to make a deal? Sure you do. Perhaps it’s the renewal of an exclusive contract. Perhaps it’s an extension of your office lease. Perhaps it’s a rate increase in a payor agreement.
Medical Group Management Error: Managing for Your Personal Gain – Podcast
Medical groups, especially first generation medical groups, often suffer from a common management error: Their leaders or board members manage from the perspective of their individual personal success, not from the perspective of the group’s, that is, the business’, success and of its long-term future.
Compounding the Kickback Problem – Podcast
Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician. Then, we’re dealing with analyses under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Stark Law, and their state law counterparts.
State Licensing and Anti-Competitive Bureaucracy – Podcast
At a time when telemedicine and telehealth are poised for rapid expansion, many state medical boards are doubling down on what appears to be their true purpose: enacting and enforcing anti-competitive measures to protect those already licensed in the jurisdiction.