As what were hospital cases now flow out to independent ASCs, hospitals are begging to be aligned with physicians. But why allow a hospital to be a partner in your ASC deal?
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Despite our teacher’s inability to conceive that it ever could, in the domain of medical group mergers 1 plus 1 can equal 3.
We kids joked that “new math” was going to make 1 plus 1 equal 3.
Over the past decade or so, hospitals have spent countless hundreds of millions of dollars “aligning” physicians. This so-called alignment has included acquiring physician practices, employing physicians in states without corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and, in states where hospitals can’t directly employ, employment through captive medical groups or foundations. Hospitals claim that the idea […]
A recent survey shows 87% of surveyed physicians say that they’re personally at risk of burnout.
When I was a kid, there was a new method of teaching math that was heavily marketed to our parents. It was called the “new math.” It was supposed to make it a way for math to be more easily understood by students.
Last week (November 20, 2018), I mentioned the increase in the physician dissatisfaction index, which now tops out at 3.95 out of a possible 5. See my Success in Motion video, Physician Misery Index Jumps Up Due To Dissatisfaction. The survey, conducted annually by the data technology firm Geneia, found that 87% of surveyed physicians say […]
As what were hospital cases now flow out to independent ASCs, hospitals are begging to be aligned with physicians. But why allow a hospital to be a partner in your ASC deal?
If a procedure can be performed outside of the hospital, it will be performed outside of the hospital.
As the shift of surgeries from the hospital setting to the ASC setting accelerates, we’re seeing more fraud at the ASC level. No, I’m not talking about the significant amount of fraud that comes from the “usual suspects,” criminal operators who bill for medically unnecessary procedures, for procedures that never occurred, and so on. Instead, […]
