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.
Tag: facility
How A 2-Cent Personal Touch Can Drive Thousands to Millions in Business – Success in Motion
Learn how the same psychology of small, personal touches can drive thousands to millions of dollars in business to you.
Creative Destruction Blows Up Hospital System – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the death of another small hospital system and how it can result in the birth of many new physician-led ventures.
Hospital CEO Blames (Almost) His Dog for Eating His Homework . . . I Mean Profits
In a quote qualitatively similar to “my dog ate my homework,” a hospital CEO blamed an “aggressive, direct competitor” for the downturn in his facility’s patient volume. The drop in business led to a significant financial loss, a staff layoff, and a near scrape with Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Uncompensated Medical Directorship Leads to $3.2 Million False Claims Act Settlement – Podcast
You may have seen their websites: Anesthesia “practice management companies” that advertise “no stipends!” to obtain facility contracts.
Creating New Healthcare Ventures Without Outside Capital – Success in Motion
Stop thinking first about outside capital. This is healthcare collaboration in its true form.
How Many Felonies Have You Committed Today? – Podcast
How many compliance related crimes have you or your colleagues or employees committed today, whether purposefully or, completely inadvertently?
CMS Cuts Payments to Hospital Outpatient Clinics by 40% and Boosts Independent Physician Practice and Physician-Owned Facilities – Podcast
In one fell swoop, CMS pulled the rug out from under hospital control of physician practice, rendering many, if not almost all, hospital outpatient clinics unprofitable.
Hospital-Physician Owned ASC Sues Freedom Loving Physician Entrepreneurs for Competing – Medical Group Minute
What’s really going on? And why should you, probably not a surgeon in Sioux City, care?
The Failure of Public Education and the Hospital System Near You – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark has he discusses the factory-like history of public education and its overlay with the factory-like hospital system model.