The Wall Street Journal portrays it as causing panic in the streets.
Tag: alignment
The Wall Street Journal portrays it as causing panic in the streets. I’m taking about the pending acquisition of Aetna by CVS Healthcare. It’s stoking fear of the combination of a ubiquitous retail delivery platform, CVS, with the health insurance, managed care, and huge patient database of Aetna. More traditional health insurers and large scale […]
I recently read an article about a physician who had sold his practice to a hospital. The physician was quoted as having stated that he had grown disenchanted with running the business end of his own practice, thus his agreement to “have my practice managed by” the hospital.
If the hospital can, both through practice acquisition and the expansion of its system, acquire sufficient market power, it can also pressure insurers, individual consumers, and others paying for healthcare to pay more for the same services.
Physicians should be all for collaboration in terms of patient care, collaboration with other providers and collaboration with facilities.
You decided to sell your medical group to a large national group or to the hospital. If you’ve been paying attention to my blog posts, you know that I strongly believe that the creation of large players in healthcare, especially large hospital-centric players, is making the industry far more fragile, far more prone to fail […]
ACOs: Clinical alignment is a great thing. Complete economic alignment is stupid.
Your contract’s real term is how quickly it can be terminated.
It’s not too late to see that unless physicians plot their own future, the hospitals (and the government and, to the extent they will long exist…that’s another topic…health insurers) have a future planned for you.
I recently read an article about a physician who had sold his practice to a hospital.