Many people tend to think within professional silos. Barbers cut hair. Farmers farm. And, doctors practice medicine. Why? I read a Wall Street Journal article about a company in the gym business that’s expanding beyond the gym business into – yep, you got it – healthcare. It’s just another one of those ventures. There’s a…
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How Walmart’s Latest Healthcare Announcement Can Be Your Key to Higher Prices – Podcast
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.
How Walmart’s Latest Healthcare Announcement Can Be Your Key to Higher Prices
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,…
Franchising As a Healthcare Business Model – Medical Group Minute
Franchise models exist in medicine as well as in hamburgers. For example, in the urgent care center market.
Rightsizing Your Medical Group – Success in Motion
Do you have the governance structure, policies, employment agreements, and other elements required to shift resources and reduce staff as well as expand it in face of shifting needs?
What’s Your Choice: Mediocre Advancement or Transformational Improvement? – Podcast
Are you planning for your ideal future reality, or focusing on slight incremental improvements?
Here Comes 2017 – Will You Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way?
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. A pithy saying with a kernel of truth for many medical groups. As the New Year approaches, have you asked yourself where it is that you’re going? Your business landscape is changing. Exactly how and exactly where it will wind up isn’t completely clear, yet it’s not…
Growth for What Sake? – Medical Group Minute
Growth. There’s lots of talk about it.
Why You Have to Build a Bigger Future – Medical Group Minute
Sessile animals, for example, sponges or coral, live their lives fixed in one place. Food comes to them. You might thing that they’ve got it made. But, in an emergency, as when their natural defenses fail them, almost none have the ability to move. It’s all over.
Creating Interlocking Physician-Owned Ventures
Driving through the mountain town built around a lake, I couldn’t help but notice the David Isaac empire. (David Isaac isn’t his real name, I’ve changed it for this post.) There was David Isaac Boat Sales. A mile or so away, there was the David Isaac Marina. And, there was David Isaac Toyota. A quick…