There’s a significant amount of timing involved in respect of the negotiation of agreements between physician groups and hospitals, especially in connection with exclusive contracts.
I see zombies every day. More physicians don’t question the promises of employment.
I see that you’re driving a Chevy Spark, getting 119 combined city/highway miles per gallon-equivalent. And, at around $25,000, it’s got to be the most efficient car currently being sold in the U.S. What? You’re not? Oh, then you’re driving a Nissan Versa 1.6 S, right? At $11,990, it’s the least expensive car sold in […]
What about your practice’s stream of business? Is it a single channel, even a very large single channel, or is it supported by multiple streams, streams of income, that is?
Go ahead, I encourage you, think entrepreneurially. But please be smart about it.
Why become a hospital-employed physician?
Competitive advantages are developed, excluding competitors from the equation.
Your business doesn’t exist to control costs. It exists to serve your customers. It’s efficacy in terms of doing the right thing the right way for your customers that’s important.
As much actual tension as there is between physician groups and ACOs, they share a common weakness.
Citizens Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in Victoria, Texas, paid the United States government $21,750,000 to settle, without admitting wrongdoing, a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act. The whistleblowers, competing physicians, will receive $5,981,250 from the recovery.
