The healthcare tide is strong: pushing forward hospital-centric healthcare, accountable care organizations, and governmental meddling.
Tag: Accountable Care Organization
Technological revolution enables the coordination of care across locations, providers, and facilities.
Your contract’s real term is how quickly it can be terminated.
The healthcare tide is strong: pushing forward hospital-centric healthcare, accountable care organizations, and governmental meddling. But what way are you swimming toward your future? Are you swimming with the tide or against it? Certainly, some trends are strong and will continue to play out no matter how hard you fight against them. For those interested […]
Just as in sports, many medical group leaders are motivated by “winning isn’t everything – it’s the only thing” thinking. But there’s an important corollary to that rule that often goes disregarded to the group’s detriment: Sometimes it pays to lose or to not play at all. How can that be? Well, imagine that your […]
As much actual tension as there is between physician groups and ACOs, they share a common weakness. From the smallest multi-provider group to the largest “alignment” entities, their real value isn’t in leases, equipment, or payor contracts, it’s in the knowledge, skills and experience of their professional employees – specifically, their physicians. That value walks […]
Your contract’s real term is how quickly it can be terminated.
There is a complex interplay between hospital-based group exclusive contracts and ACO-entity payment mechanisms. In addition to making certain that money flows into the group, as opposed to around it, obviously a protective move, there are significant planning opportunities in the play off between the managed care contracting provisions of exclusive contracts and the terms […]
Consistent with the communal notions of the “We” society, physicians are being told by politicians, pundits and the press that you are in social services – do you really believe this?
I recently read an article about a physician who had sold his practice to a hospital. He was quoted as having stated that he had grown disenchanted with running the business end of his own practice, thus he had agreed to “have my practice managed by” the hospital. From the article author’s viewpoint, this signals […]
