Criminal and, at least, serious civil, liability lurks in many neat neighborhoods. Create your own neighborhood watch to make sure that it’s not lurking behind your medical group’s otherwise metaphorical neat lawn.
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You can’t build a bigger future for your medical group’s business if all you do is play is defense. You have to play offense, too: you must take affirmative steps to grow your business. But just the same, the failure to play defense can be fatal. There’s a lesson in defense to be learned from […]
Watch what you are negotiating over – don’t start a bidding war over nothing!
Has your medical group put themselves in a position where they can be easily taken over legally and cheaply?
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?
It was a neighborhood like many others. Neat, but not too neat front yards. Newspapers brought in by 8:00 a.m. and maybe by 10:00 a.m. on weekends. And, all was within the bounds of normal, giving, of course, wide birth to the meaning of the word, for this is nonfiction, not fiction. But with one […]
I promised to indemnify you. Here’s a quarter. You might skip over indemnification provisions when negotiating a contract. You understand what they are. They’re just boilerplate, right? Wrong. First, boilerplate isn’t “extra stuff.” It’s the opposite. Like the strong metal plate around a boiler designed to contain it and prevent an explosion, boilerplate in an […]
Ride along as Mark discusses how you can avoid the penalties of mischaracterizing employees as independent contractors.
If you’re in the selling position (which might be an actual sale of an asset or might be the sale of your efforts and knowledge), take the time and effort to strategize about how you can create an auction, or an auction-like environment, for what you have to sell. In essence you’ll be using human nature to boost your result.
A study recently published in Health Affairs, that anyone sane would hope wasn’t funded with taxpayer money, has revealed that house calls can help reduce preventable emergency room visits and hospital readmissions.