Despite many attempts to pretend it’s so, healthcare is not a production line either for patients or for employed or subcontracted physicians.
Category: Subcontracts
One needs to do significant planning in advance of engaging anyone, even a physician, as an independent contractor.
Ride along as Mark discusses how you can avoid the penalties of mischaracterizing employees as independent contractors.
As much actual tension as there is between physician groups and ACOs, they share a common weakness.
Models. No, not the skinny kind in a magazine. But conceptual frameworks. Like global warming “models” or even Obamacare.
Decisions and paths are flexible, fluid, customizable. They are infinitely adjustable, like Gumby.
In common with other businesses, medical groups often assume that deals and decisions are like on–off switches, yea or nay, thumbs up or thumbs down.
Does your group have a contractual right to enforce standards of behavior?
Those who are surprised that employers are increasingly turning to part time workers and temps to escape Obamacare are clueless.
What happens when one of the members of your group who is assigned to work at different sites, acts out on his or her bias against working at a particular location, perhaps by showing up late, or by making untoward comments to the staff, or by engaging in some other type of disruptive behavior?
