Your contract’s real term is how quickly it can be terminated.
Tag: hospital based
Potentially Profitable Interplay Between Exclusive Contracts and ACOs
There is a complex interplay between hospital-based group exclusive contracts and ACO-entity payment mechanisms. In addition to making certain that money flows into the group, as opposed to around it, obviously a protective move, there are significant planning opportunities in the play off between the managed care contracting provisions of exclusive contracts and the terms…
RFP – Really Foolish Proposition?
Learn how savvy hospital and buyer tactics weaponize leverage—and how physician groups can recognize and counter fulcrum‑based strategies.
Resolving Healthcare Market Pressure – Podcast
For many physicians, the winds of change are of hurricane force. Consider how they can be harnessed.
Yin and Yang. Contract Term and Termination.
Yin and Yang. Positive and negative. Heads or tails.
Two sides, inseparably linked.
Just like the far less obvious provisions of any agreement: term and termination.
Interview with Earl Ongman of Sierra Health Services – Part 2
Mark Weiss interviews Earl Ongman of Sierra Health Services.
Interview with Earl Ongman of Sierra Health Services – Part 1
Mark Weiss interviews Earl Ongman of Sierra Health Services.
Breaking the Chains of the New Normal – Podcast
Many physicians, even physician group leaders, have trouble with the notion of transformational change because today’s payor and hospital centric status quo is their “normal.”
An Important Lesson From the Insurance Industry
What’s happening to insurance agents is already hitting physicians. Here’s how compensation is collapsing—and what doctors must do next.
The Chicken and the Pig and the ACO
I recently heard it said that while it takes both a chicken and a pig to make a ham and egg breakfast, the chicken is merely involved while the pig is fully committed. How different is this from the relationship between hospital administrators on the one hand, and physicians on the other, in connection with…