Obamacare provides health insurance coverage, but coverage is not access to care. For care, you need physicians and you need to be able to see a physician, the right one, when you require care.
I Want to Become a Partner – Podcast
Lawyers hear this all the time from newer members of their firm. Doctors, too, hear it from junior members of their medical group.
Growth for What Sake?
Growth for growth’s sake isn’t a strategy. It’s just a tactic, the tactic of getting bigger.
Growing your business doesn’t always make it more profitable. If it did, General Motors would never have gone into bankruptcy.
Mastery and Your Medical Group – Medical Group Minute
I’m not really one for documentaries, but I recently watched, for the second time, Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
Value and the Price of Not Providing It
Today, there’s no longer even the “promise” of lifetime employment. “Retirement” as in replacement, replacement just like an old machine, is as far off as the next layoff or the next outsourcing.
Walmart and Why Hospitals May Be Liable for Medical Group Obligations
A recent settlement in a case involving Wal-Mart raises interesting issues for hospitals contracting with medical groups.
Paper Business Cards and Patient Interaction – Podcast
Are you creating physical touch points for your patients, customers, referral sources and other potential deal partners?
Why Love in the Air Is Money in Your Pocket
Driving down the freeway a week or so ago, I saw a large warehouse with this motto painted on it in giant letters: “We Strive For Our Customers’ Affection.”
Why Any Port Isn’t Good in a Storm – Medical Group Minute
Bigger or larger or more providers or more locations do not, in and of themselves, make a stronger business.
Don’t Confuse Strategy With Tactics (Or With Garbage)
Strategy is the map of your intended destination, not simply of each individual stop along a way that is left to chance. Tactics are steps in the implementation of strategy.