For the few of you out there who don’t recognize the acronym “CON”, it stands for “certificate of need” which is itself a con.
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State Board and Hospital Recommend Against Better Care at a Lower Cost to Consumers – Podcast
Chalk up a victory for less care at higher prices. Hey, aren’t those two of the Anti-Triple Aim?
State Board and Hospital Recommend Against Better Care at a Lower Cost to Consumers – Medical Group Minute
Chalk up a victory for less care at higher prices. Hey, aren’t those two of the Anti-Triple Aim?
State Board and Hospital Recommend Against Better Care at a Lower Cost to Consumers
Chalk up a victory for less care at higher prices. Hey, aren’t those two of the Anti-Triple Aim?
Hospital-Physician Owned ASC Sues Freedom Loving Physician Entrepreneurs for Competing – Medical Group Minute
What’s really going on? And why should you, probably not a surgeon in Sioux City, care?
Taxis vs. Uber . . . Hospitals vs. Physicians – Success in Motion
Ride along as Mark discusses the fact that when businesses can’t compete, they become big believers in regulation, just as in the ban on new physician-owned Medicare participating hospitals.
Pay Fee or Die – Success in Motion
Sit back and listen to Mark talk about Vermont’s war on patient care, freedom, and freestanding facilities.
Hospital-Physician Owned ASC Sues Freedom Loving Physician Entrepreneurs for Competing
The Sioux City Journal reported last week (on 12/29/17) that a hospital-physician joint venture ASC, Pierce Street Same Day Surgery, filed suit to enforce covenants not to compete against a number of current and former physician investors. Pierce Street is also suing the medical group, Tri-State Specialists, owned by some of the individual physician defendants….
Who’s Accrediting the Accreditors? – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he questions who’s accrediting the accreditors, even the biggest one of all, the Joint Commission.
A Good Reason and the Real Reason for Restricting Physician Owned Hospitals – Medical Group Minute
To paraphrase J.P. Morgan, we always have two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.


