Creative destruction is taking aim directly at community hospitals. You can fight to save them.
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Over the past decade or so, hospitals have spent countless hundreds of millions of dollars “aligning” physicians. This so-called alignment has included acquiring physician practices, employing physicians in states without corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and, in states where hospitals can’t directly employ, employment through captive medical groups or foundations. Hospitals claim that the idea […]
Creative destruction is taking aim directly at community hospitals
What does it mean to you? What does it mean if you are setting up a medical group?
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?
n a recent article in the North Bay Business Journal, Jan Emerson-Shea, vice president, external affairs at the California Hospital Association, was quoted, when speaking of community hospitals, as saying that, “there’s a host of challenges that all hospitals face but particularly these small, independent hospitals.
If a procedure can be performed outside of the hospital, it will be performed outside of the hospital.
What does partnership mean in a medical group? What does it mean to you?
The Wall Street Journal portrays it as causing panic in the streets.
If I can make you a dollar by cutting your costs, can I keep 50 cents?