Although any particular crisis can’t be predicted, classes of crisis are capable of prediction and, even if that is not true of a specific situation, the way in which your group or business will respond to a crisis can, should, and must be planned far in advance.
Are you sure those consultants are helping to improve your business? Or are they potentially sending you to jail?
It you haven’t yet read it, see my December 16, 2024, post, Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act, for part 1 of this thread.
When that post was published on LinkedIn, my friend James Prudden commented, asking me how patients would be protected if the No Surprises Act were repealed. Here’s my response to James.
Re-frame the issue for what it really is: Surprise physician services stealing. Now’s the time for the No Surprises Act, and each state counterpart, to go.
Although no one is going to do time as a result of thinking that wet sidewalks cause rain, in the case of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, confusion over correlation can put you in jail.
After having represented medical groups with a particular emphasis on hospital-based groups for 30 years, it has become strikingly clear that what distinguishes the most successful groups, from the great majority of the mediocre.
There are stupid questions. And there are certainly stupid statements. But even so, they often present a kernel of wisdom for your taking.
By the early years of the 20th Century, hospitals became large healthcare factories due to the size and expense of what was then cutting edge technology…
Medical group organizers generally confine their entity’s business structure to a corporate or partnership type entity and then proceed to conduct business through it.
People are internally inconsistent. Many contracts in the healthcare sphere are inconsistent, too. The first causes grief, the second shifts power.