Chalk up a victory for less care at higher prices. Hey, aren’t those two of the Anti-Triple Aim?
Avoiding a Self-Defeating Negotiation Mistake – Medical Group Minute
Have you ever allowed the negotiating rug to be pulled out from under you? Or even worse, have you helped the other side pull the negotiating rug from out under you?
Enlisting Outside Leverage – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the concept of potentially outsourcing leverage in the context of negotiations.
How Much Uncertainty Can You Handle?
In terms of business deals, contracting, and negotiating, physicians often ask me, “are you certain it’s going to work?
Surgeon and Controlled Companies Pay $4.5 Million Settlement Months After Medtronic Pays $9.21 Million Tip (Settlement) For Meals at the Surgeon’s Restaurant – Podcast
Well, the story as told by the Government is a familiar one: They allege that the events were payments to benefit Dr. Asfora and induce him to use Medtronic’s SynchroMed II intrathecal infusion pumps.
Was the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Surprise Medical Billing and U.S. Anesthesia Partners v. UnitedHealthcare – Medical Group Minute
There’s nothing inherently fair in this notion of paying a purported “fair fee”. If there were, insurers would never have been in favor of it.
Thinking Your Way Out of the Compensation System Box – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses pitfalls of the current status quo relation to compensation systems.
UnitedHealth Pushing Business to ASCs and Outpatient Imaging
Laugh about it or cry about it, the bottom line is the same: they are cutting costs by moving all cases that can be moved out of the hospital out of the hospital. Where does that leave you?
Why Blindly Copying Rarely Works – Podcast
It was perhaps the funniest healthcare headline ever: “Zimmer Biomet to combine spine, dental businesses to form company called NewCo.”
The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison – Medical Group Minute
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.