Do you know the secrets of using fear of loss as a tactic in hospital negotiations?
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Ride along with Mark as he discusses how to plan for succession within your medical group.
According to 2023 reports, by 2021, nearly 70% of physicians were employed by hospitals or investor-owned corporations.
Even though many physicians and facility administrators don’t realize it, a revolving door can be a useful analogy for anti-kickback analysis. Or, I suppose, just for kickbacks.
With physician shortages in many specialties opening up lucrative opportunities for locums work, temporary staffing is undergoing a boom.
Hospitals that use RFPs and others fool’s tools in respect of physician relationships will surely suffer as fools in the end.
I remember, as a kid, walking around Disneyland, noticing yellow “no parking” size signs labeled Kodak Moment. They indicated a great vantage point for taking a photo. Yet today Kodak is in bankruptcy, its core film business gutted by the digital camera.
Many medical groups have come to expect that their businesses run like vending machines. Push the button and out comes collections.
I’ve written about hospital closures, but before today, I’ve never written about a hospital that turned to crowdfunding to stay afloat.
The financial impact was immediate and momentous: Neither new nor existing claims, nor payment for them, could be processed.