Learn how savvy hospital and buyer tactics weaponize leverage—and how physician groups can recognize and counter fulcrum‑based strategies.
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Resolving Healthcare Market Pressure – Podcast
For many physicians, the winds of change are of hurricane force. Consider how they can be harnessed.
You’re Not Being Managed, You’re Being Employed
I recently read an article about a physician who had sold his practice to a hospital. He was quoted as having stated that he had grown disenchanted with running the business end of his own practice, thus he had agreed to “have my practice managed by” the hospital. From the article author’s viewpoint, this signals…
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.”
Who Asked the Patient If She Wants a Hospitalist? – Podcast
The battle between patients’ physicians and hospitalists rages on. But who asked the patient?
The “Why” in Hospital Employment
Why become a hospital-based physician? But as the industry news also reports, hospital closures are negatively impacting the physician employment market.
Hospital Employment is No Panacea for Physicians – Podcast
Employment by hospitals is no safe harbor for physicians; in fact, it’s quite the opposite.