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Strategy
Who Really Owns Your Medical Group? – Success in Motion
Who actually owns your medical group? It might not be who you think it is.
Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without a Hospital
Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.
Debt Ailments Affecting Large Physician Services Companies
An article in the Wall Street Journal (Saturday/Sunday edition, September 28 – 29, 2019) revealed that the corporate debt of large physician services companies, TeamHealth and Envision Healthcare, was now trading below the distress ratio. These, and other, healthcare companies’ junk-rated bonds are now trading below 80 cents on the dollar, the upper limit of…
Why Your Price Has Nothing to do With Cost – Podcast
We all place a different value on what we receive and we’re willing to pay a comparable price. It has nothing to do with the cost to the producer or provider.
Why You Must Instantiate – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the importance of making a hospital-based medical group’s wins “real” to those who hold your faith in their hands: hospital administration.
Another Medical Staff Moves to Fire The Hospital CEO
I can’t be sure that anyone on the medical staff at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach, California read my 2017 post, What You Need To Know About The Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed The Medical Center CEO, but they appear to be following the same strategy in an attempt to eject a hospital CEO.
Fast Times and the Problem with Slow Medical Group Decision Making
We’re living in a time of fast-paced change. Sure. But, I think people have been saying that since the Enlightenment. Maybe it’s the one thing that’s remained constant. But maybe it’s not. Some things have certainly remained the same. For example, more than seven years ago, in my blog post entitled Who’s Driving Your Practice’s Bus?,…
Complain. Get Fired. Get $17.5 Million. – Podcast
A physician raises honest criticism or files a heartfelt complaint concerning another member of the medical staff or another member of her group. She’s fired.
Why You Need to Adopt the Contingency Mindset
Have you considered the impact of contingency fee thinking on your business? No, not contingency fees in the sense of a personal injury or a med mal lawyer. And no, not contingency fees in the sense of the type of contingent and blended fee deals that I do on transactions with clients from time to…