Would any payor pay a physician or medical group more than Medicare plus 25% if they didn’t have to? Would any payor with the ability to control what its “average” contract rate is, reduce its “average” if that’s all it has to pay to an out-of-network physician or medical group? California’s law known as “AB…
Think like a virus when considering open possibilities in taking control of your future.
The next thing you know she was fired.
Unfortunately, it’s an all too uncommon experience.
A physician raises honest criticism or files a heartfelt complaint concerning another member of the medical staff or another member of her group. She’s fired.
In the original 2011, version of this article), I correctly predicted that the role of the physician as the principal provider of healthcare was in danger. Over the ensuing 6-plus years, hospitals have continued to benefit from the expanding role of paraprofessionals and from the top level professional degree, the doctorate, that those paraprofessionals are…
Seemingly discreet events in the life of running a medical group, are actually all related.
“When you have time to gripe, you have time to wipe. When you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”
I recently heard of a consumer survey done at a hotel in which it was found that the guests’ impressions of every factor tested for, the quality of the service, the attractiveness of the rooms, the cleanliness of the common areas, etc., depended upon their satisfaction with the hotel check-in experience.
If yours is an average group, you’re doing more work for less pay.
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives simultaneously placed another nail in the coffin of hospitals and gave a tremendous boost to ambulatory surgery centers and their physician owners. That’s because the House passed the 21st Century Cures Act, Medicare legislation that the Senate is expected to pass next week. The law includes two provisions of…
Socialism is alive and well, and I’m not simply talking about the socialistic charade of Hugo Chavez.