First impressions shape patient satisfaction. Ensure your group’s initial interactions align with your quality of care.
Tag: hospital based
Timing Exclusive Contract Negotiation
Every interaction counts. Begin negotiating your next exclusive contract as soon as the ink is dry on the current one.
You Are Not a Service
Running a hospital based group as “service” for the hospital, functioning as a sort of clearinghouse for income and expenses, severely limits your group’s future. It limits the willingness, and the ability, of your group to pursue outside opportunities. That’s chiefly because there is tremendous pressure to pass through to the owner, and often to…
Same Company. Two Different Experiences. One Big Failure.
Understand the complexities of business failure through examples from the airline sector and its inconsistent customer experience.
The (Not So) Obvious Alternative to Cutbacks
Explore the impact of cutbacks on income and expectations amid economic challenges and discover strategies for growth.
Right Sized Group
Explore the dynamics of hospital based groups and the debate on whether to merge for growth or maintain independence.
The Tipping Point – Captive Medical Staffs and Loss of Accreditation
As hospital employment rises, medical staffs risk becoming rubber stamps. Learn how this threatens accreditation and group autonomy.
How a Hospital Based Group Can Profit From Problems – Podcast
Problems happen. But when they do, turn them into profit.
If Technology (and HIPAA) Drive Independent Healthcare Practice, Why the Need for Physician “Alignment?”
30 years ago, in order to practice law on a sophisticated level, you needed to be part of a firm with its relatively large support staff. You dictated and your secretary either took shorthand or transcribed the tape, typing away at a typewriter. Flash forward to today — I’m dictating this post into Evernote on…
Is Your Group a Vendor . . . or a Partner? – Podcast
If you want your group to have a future, stop being a vendor.



