The tides of healthcare ebb and flow like the width of men's ties and the political affiliation of Michael Bloomberg.
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Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.
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Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses a question you might have never asked yourself: Who actually owns your medical group? It might not be who you think it is.
Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.
For years, hospitals have pushed to “align” physicians. Take a ride with Mark as he talks about a reversal in the trend: 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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It’s easy to be a backseat driver, but in the context of case flight from hospitals to outpatient facilities, buying large hospitals from national chains “because we can run them better” is a bit risky.
Hospitals purchased physician practices, employed and otherwise aligned physicians, and pushed into outpatient care.
Creative destruction is taking aim directly at community hospitals. You can fight to save them. But if they’ve failed, you can, á la Shumpeter (and Weiss), take part in creating, phoenix-like, far more appropriate healthcare solutions for your community and for your profit.
Yes, 4.89 billion reasons for you, if you are a physician who owns or is thinking about owning a surgery center (“ASC”). And, yes, each of them is green. Green as in a dollar bill.
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