Earlier this year, a federal trial court in Idaho struck down, and ordered unwound, a hospital’s acquisition of a medical group on grounds that it violated antitrust law. The case is now on appeal.
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The physician subsidiary entity is a physician alignment model sold as a kinder, gentler, freer alternative to direct hospital employment.
Measurement of “care” will soon count for more than care itself.
It’s the same degree of freedom that exists within the giraffe enclosure at the Santa Barbara Zoo: the giraffes can run anywhere they want, except where they can’t.
Those who are surprised that employers are increasingly turning to part time workers and temps to escape Obamacare are clueless.
Corporations exist to make a profit. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a fact of life. One that I am all in favor of. Just keep your eyes open.
In the healthcare world being ushered in by Obamacare, measurement of “care” will count for more than the actual care itself.
Although the Affordable Care Act requires that an insurer must give three months’ notice to subsidized healthcare exchange participants who fail to pay their share of premiums before the insurer can cancel coverage, the insurer has no obligation to pay for the participants’ care after the first month of that three month period.
A recent trip to a restaurant and the post office illustrate the difference between entrepreneurial medicine and the brave new bureaucratic world of healthcare.
For many physicians, the winds of change are of hurricane force. Consider how they can be harnessed.