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, […]
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It’s not quite like life imitating art, but it’s probably as close to it as I’m going to see today. I just read a puff piece sponsored by Bank of America, pricey click bait for hospital CFOs, that supposedly features a roundtable “conversation” among (oxymoron warning) forward-looking hospital CFOs. Apparently, these CFOs have just realized […]
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the split of physician employment into two segments, one in which employed physicians will never become owners and the other in which a quick track to partnership is offered.
Ride along with Mark as he talks about the hospital that can’t keep an owner.
If a procedure can be performed outside of the hospital, it will be performed outside of the hospital. And, as technology and payor acceptance accelerate, more, even most, procedures will be performed outside of a hospital.
In a personal services business, from medical groups to acute care hospitals, what’s more important, your people or your tangible assets?
Thirty some years ago, my father told me that you paid less for $150 shoes than you did for a $49 pair.
Some things are consumed. Others bring a benefit that lasts for years and even decades.