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When Is a Letter “Mailed”? Postmarks, Contracts, and a Quiet USPS Change with Real Consequences
USPS postmark delays can make timely contract notices look late. Learn why this matters to protect deadlines and reduce legal risk.
A $995 Sneaker and Its Lessons for Your Business
Physician services aren’t a commodity, they’re a value proposition. Learn how mindset shifts and premium positioning can transform your practice and attract high-value patients.
Hospitals and the Return of the Company Town
Are hospitals becoming modern company towns for physicians? Explore the parallels, risks, and emerging alternatives for independence.
Fraud on Fridays: Upcoding to Infinity and Beyond
If we could call it upcoding, it would be an understatement to call it upcoding to infinity.
Cognitive Biases and Contracting
When you’re negotiating for any agreement, any deal, especially one that is creating an ongoing relationship, which is the hot molten center of services agreements such as exclusive contracts, you not only want to, but you need to, play to human cognitive biases in establishing that relationship.
Fraud on Fridays: Fraud on Physicians in the ASC Setting
When you think about fraud at an ASC, you tend to think about fraud on payers, from Medicare to well, Blue Cross. You know, cases that never happened, patients who didn’t suffer from any medical issue, and the like. But what about fraud on physicians at an ASC? Because physicians hardly think about it, it…
How to Use the Law Before it Uses You.
Some laws derive from morality and others are purely the result of politicking and protectionism.
Surprise: The No Surprises Act Is Working, Just Not How Insurers Planned
The No Surprises Act wasn’t about patients. The fine print told a different tale: it was an insurer-protection law.
Do You Know What Block Can’t be Pulled From the Deal?
Contracts in healthcare are built like block towers—each deal-point matters. Remove the wrong one, and the entire structure may collapse.