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What If They Had Begun to Think About Their Future When It Was Still in Their Past? – Podcast
The medical group that I was going to see was under pressure…
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.
Take A Minute (Clinic) to Consider the Future of Your Medical Practice
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. But, like it or not, the Minute Clinic and other variants of a consumer-friendly model are going to become an increasing part of the way healthcare is…
What A Tennessee Lawsuit Teaches You About Protecting Your Medical Group’s Business
You can’t build a bigger future for your medical group’s business if all you do is play is defense. You have to play offense, too: you must take affirmative steps to grow your business. But just the same, the failure to play defense can be fatal. There’s a lesson in defense to be learned from…
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….
How To Use Red Teams to Strengthen Your Business – Podcast
You can use a red team strategy to discover your medical group’s weaknesses and to correct them before someone else takes advantage of them.
Washington State Takes Antitrust Aim at Aggressive Health System Competition
The unfettered growth of hosptial-centric medicine, usually touted as bringing “better care,” “enhanced safety,” and “more efficiency,” often brings less caring care, hospital acquired infections, and . . . control over the market with its “efficient” byproduct, higher prices. The growth of hospital systems can be seen as a reaction to the fact that procedures…
Structure and Compensation, the Genetic Defect in Medical Groups – Medical Group Minute
The long term success of your group relies on a governance structure that enhances the strength of the entire group rather than rewarding a few individuals.
Weaponized RFPs – Podcast
RFPs can wear many faces, is it an organic, fictitious or fulcrum RFP? Find out which type you’re facing, and strategize your response.