Many medical group leaders come to me for help when they’ve got a “problem” and they’re looking for a solution.
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Many medical group leaders come to me for help when they’ve got a “problem” and they’re looking for a solution.
Oftentimes, they think that the solution lies outside of the problem.
At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like a plot from the old Divorce Court TV show. But no, it wasn’t a battle of the spouses over the failure of a marriage, it was a battle of a hospital and a medical group over what appears to be the failure of an exclusive anesthesia contract.
At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like a plot from the old Divorce Court TV show. But no, it wasn’t a battle of the spouses over the failure of a marriage, it was a battle of a hospital and a medical group over what appears to be the failure of an exclusive anesthesia contract.
There is a crisis. But it’s not the one you’ve heard about.
It’s time to fix that. It’s time to change the conversation.
But to do that, you have to change the frame.
Many physicians bemoan the fact that we have retail, corporate run walk in clinics, such as the Minute Clinics run by CVS, staffed with nurse practitioners and PAs.
Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician.
In August, 2019, the giant insurer UnitedHealth informed the large physician services company, TeamHealth, it would be dumping TeamHealth from two-thirds of their high reimbursement in-network contracts.
At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like a plot from the old Divorce Court TV show. But no, it wasn’t a battle of the spouses over the failure of a marriage, it was a battle of a hospital and a medical group over what appears to be the failure of an exclusive […]
Both state and national level politicians certainly know what side the bread is buttered on, and who’s doing the buttering. There are far more patients than there are physicians, thus the rush to fix the problem they’ve defined as “surprise medical bills.” Sure, just like I’m surprised when I pay good money for admission to […]