What does partnership mean in a medical group? What does it mean to you? What does it mean for your group? What does it mean if you are setting up a medical group? I recently heard from someone (a partner in a law firm) who was recounting a story of another lawyer, who, years ago, […]
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The Wall Street Journal portrays it as causing panic in the streets. I’m taking about the pending acquisition of Aetna by CVS Healthcare. It’s stoking fear of the combination of a ubiquitous retail delivery platform, CVS, with the health insurance, managed care, and huge patient database of Aetna. More traditional health insurers and large scale […]
If I can make you a dollar by cutting your costs, can I keep 50 cents?
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 […]
If I can make you a dollar by cutting your costs, can I keep 50 cents? That, in a nutshell, is what’s described as “gainsharing” in the context of arrangements between medical groups and hospitals. The physicians, as a part of a structured arrangement, are rewarded for making a hospital service more efficient or more […]
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.
Congress has legislated away new physician majority owned hospitals from Medicare participation. It didn’t legislate away control.
