At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like a plot from the old Divorce Court TV show. But no, it wasn’t a battle of the spouses over the failure of a marriage, it was a battle of a hospital and a medical group over what appears to be the failure of an exclusive […]
Tag: competition
Who’s your competition? The hospital five miles down the road?
In many medical specialties, both hospital and office based, national groups have become significant competitors.
Has your medical group put themselves in a position where they can be easily taken over legally and cheaply?
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector.
Many physicians bemoan the fact that we have retail, corporate run walk in clinics, such as the Minute Clinics run by CVS, staffed with nurse practitioners and PAs.
What’s really going on? And why should you, probably not a surgeon in Sioux City, care?
Ride along with Mark while he shares his thoughts on why huge hospital mergers, like the one just announced by Baylor Scott & White and the Memorial Hermann Health System, aren’t good for anyone other than the executives who run them.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector, including, notably, in connection with monopolization through mergers in the market for physician services. In 2017, the FTC challenged the proposed merger of physician group Mid Dakota Clinic into Sanford Health, an […]