If a procedure can be performed outside of the hospital, it will be performed outside of the hospital.
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You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.
Take a seat while Mark discusses the payment crisis adding to hospitals’ woes.
As a frequent reader of the blog, you know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities. (In fact, if you haven’t already, grab a free copy of my 2016 book, The Impending Death of Hospitals, here.) I’m not sure whether the folks at Banner Health read my book […]
Ride along with Mark as he talks about the hospital that can’t keep an owner.
In what might seem to some like ancient history and to others as a clarion call, in June 2010, New York City’s approximately 400 bed, 160 year old St. Vincent hospital, the last Roman Catholic general hospital in the city, closed its doors for the last time. In late 2017, a competing non-profit opened the […]
Naughty or Nice? This year, Santa brought a lump of coal to Tenet’s Abrazo Maryvale hospital campus. Rumored to be accompanied by the Grinch for extra muscle, he padlocked the 232-bed Phoenix area facility. All kidding aside, the hospital fell victim to, in the words of its spokesman, “dwindling patient volumes.” As a reader of […]
If a procedure can be performed outside of the hospital, it will be performed outside of the hospital. And, as technology and payor acceptance accelerate, more, even most, procedures will be performed outside of a hospital.
Listen in as Mark Weiss discusses how the end of Obamacare will create a huge recruiting opportunity for medical groups.
As I write this, Donald Trump has won the presidency and the Republicans have preserved their control of both the House and Senate. What’s this mean for the business of medicine? Well, it almost certainly means the end of Obamacare. But what exactly that means, no one knows for sure. Will the whole statutory scheme […]
