Hospital-based medical groups are often faced with a choice upon exclusive contract renewal: The expectation or demand on the part of the hospital that the group must provide its services, perhaps even at a higher level of intensity, for lower or no stipend support. A group enters into an exclusive contract in order to protect…
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Yin and Yang. Contract Term and Termination – Medical Group Minute
Your contract’s real term is how quickly it can be terminated.
Emotions as Drivers of Contractual Relationships
People can’t separate emotions from decision-making. They can lie about it and claim emotions are not a factor, but it’s frankly impossible for emotions not to be a major driver of decision-making.
Are You Blinded by Success?
What many successful businesses fail to do, blinded by riding high on today’s success, was expand their business
Tearing up Your Hospital Contract for Profit – Medical Group Minute
There’s nothing glorious in financial failure.
Contracts Needn’t Always Be Contracted – Medical Group Minute
There are many reasons why contracts are usually contracted.
Does Your Employment Contract Have Teeth?
What happens when one of the members of your group who is assigned to work at different sites, acts out on his or her bias against working at a particular location, perhaps by showing up late, or by making untoward comments to the staff, or by engaging in some other type of disruptive behavior?
It’s Not About Price
Although many in healthcare operate on a purely commodity-level basis, in reality, it’s not simply about money – it hardly ever is.
The End of Healthcare Symbiosis Might Just Kill the Host (and End the Career of the Hospital CEO)
The move by hospitals to “strengthen” hospital-based departments, and the hospital’s own finances, by outsourcing to so-called national groups and “contract management companies” might just result in the destruction of the hospital. The chances are even higher that it will end the careers of many hospital executives. Over the last 30 to 40 years, both…
Tying Your Medical Group’s Future to a Rock – Podcast
What if that one hospital your group has tied its future to pulls you to the bottom?