Most healthcare negotiations fail before they begin—because leaders don’t prepare. Learn how physician groups can approach contract talks like elite athletes: with strategy, rehearsal, and a winning mindset.
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Non-Competes After the FTC’s Pivot: A Balancing Act for Medical Group Leaders
Medical group leaders: the FTC may have buried its noncompete ban, but it’s sharpening its knives. Your contracts are now targets. Don’t wait to be caught off guard—rethink your agreements now. Tailor them to your market, protect your referral streams, and stay out of the FTC’s crosshairs. Strategic action isn’t optional—it’s survival.
The FTC Buries Its Ban on Non-Competes, But Sharpens its Aim on Violations
FTC ditches a full non-compete ban, but healthcare employers still face targeted crackdowns. Physician groups, take note.
From Kings to Contracts: No Love Lost
Even the strongest physician-hospital relationships are transactional. Survival depends on diversification, not loyalty myths.
Laboring On [About] Labor Day
Some claim that there is a thing called “work-life balance.” My opinion is that we have only one life (I’m not betting on reincarnation) and that work is an essential part of it. It’s a main driver in why we’re here. Work gives us a purpose in life.
The Anti-RFP: Forward and Reverse Auctions for Physician Services
Several years ago, it would’ve been difficult to write too much about the strategy of responding to an RFP, i.e., a request for proposal, for physician services. Today, however, with an extreme shortage of physicians, RFPs are not so much a thing.
$500 Million in Alleged Phony Charges and the Dangers of Medical Directorship
A $500M medical directorship fraud case exposes how physicians can be exploited. Protect your practice from legal and financial fallout.
Will Your Business Walk Back in in the Morning?
Your business exists and interfaces on multiple planes and, therefore, the far smarter approach is to explore and adopt protection on each.
You Can’t Lipstick That Pig: Why Physicians Must Carefully Vet Deals
Deals involving management services agreements, consulting contracts, or similar structures can appear completely legal at first glance. But dig deeper, and they might turn out to be elaborate covers for kickbacks or bribes.
Your Independence Day
July 4th, Independence Day in the United States, celebrates the original 13 colonies’ declaration, in 1776, of their independence from Great Britain. But July 4th wasn’t the day of actual separation: The separation came into effect on July 2nd, 1776, the date on which the Second Continental Congress approved a resolution declaring the “united States…