Here, courtesy of Tenet Healthcare and two terminated cardiologists, is a lesson about firing physicians . . . and, when not to.
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Ride along with Mark as he discusses how you, as a physician group owner, can add years to your career and significant profit to your bottom line.
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, starting now in January 2019, Walmart is requiring employees needing spine surgery to travel to certain contracted hospitals for their surgery.
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, beginning in January 2019, Walmart is requiring employees needing spine surgery to travel to certain contracted hospitals for their surgery. The paper reports that among the health systems Walmart will favor are the Mayo Clinic, Geisinger, and Memorial Hermann. So what’s that mean for you, […]
Direct contracting can be used as a strategy to deflect the negotiating pressure of payors, especially down-stream middlemen such as IPAs and risk bearing medical groups.
: If you saw one dead raccoon, does that mean that all raccoons are dead?
Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business.
Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business. The newspaper as middleman has been put to bed for the last time.
This post is the second in a series on direct contracting by physicians and medical groups. See Direct Contracting By Physicians and Medical Groups for the first post in the series. Before we get too deep into the subject, let’s ask an epistemological question: If you saw one dead raccoon, does that mean that all raccoons […]
In healthcare, middlemen abound. Hospital systems are middlemen for their controlled/employed physicians.