Sit back and listen to Mark talk about Vermont’s war on patient care, freedom, and freestanding facilities.
Tag: outpatient
Mitigating Against Risk to Physician Groups of Hospital Closure
Another week, another hospital closes.
Lonely Hospital Seeks Longterm Relationship – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he talks about the hospital that can’t keep an owner.
Hospital Becomes Hole in Ground. ASC Takes up the Slack.
In what might seem to some like ancient history and to others as a clarion call, in June 2010, New York City’s approximately 400 bed, 160 year old St. Vincent hospital, the last Roman Catholic general hospital in the city, closed its doors for the last time. In late 2017, a competing non-profit opened the…
Hospital-Physician Owned ASC Sues Freedom Loving Physician Entrepreneurs for Competing
The Sioux City Journal reported last week (on 12/29/17) that a hospital-physician joint venture ASC, Pierce Street Same Day Surgery, filed suit to enforce covenants not to compete against a number of current and former physician investors. Pierce Street is also suing the medical group, Tri-State Specialists, owned by some of the individual physician defendants….
Are You Prepared to be Unreasonable? George, Franz, and Scott Offer Suggestions.
New Years Day, 2018. Are you prepared to be unreasonable this year? Or would you rather continue to bet on the healthcare status quo, that is, on a hospital-centric system? Or, is being “unreasonable” actually more reasonable? George Bernard Shaw stated that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in…
Can Hospital Affiliated ASCs Survive?
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.
The Lesson of Indoor Farming Applied to ASC/Facility Development – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark Weiss as he discusses how you as a physician can apply concepts from indoor farming to your development of ASCs and other independent healthcare facilities.
Bedless Hospitals and Physician Opportunities – Podcast
If, as I’ve written before and as we’re now beginning to see, a hospital need not have beds, then what’s the difference between a hospital (which physicians can’t develop as a Medicare facility) and an ASC?
How Healthcare’s Decentralization Mirrors the Overall Economy – Success in Motion
Sit back while Mark talks with you about the opportunity to profit from how healthcare decentralization is mirroring the overall economy.