You have been coming into work every day for years. Now there’s no need to come in tomorrow because your group no longer exists.
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“I deserve it” is a meme infecting society . . .
All medical groups have a culture, whether or not it’s been purposefully created. It exists.
“I deserve it” is a meme infecting society . . . it affects medical group thinking, too.
All medical groups have a culture, whether or not it’s been purposefully created. It exists.
Unfortunately, this attitude impacts medical group thinking as well. As in “we deserve the exclusive contract,” or “I deserve her referrals.”
The other day, I heard a potential client tell me that his future was being stopped.
The hospital administrator had told him that if he doesn’t stop pushing to expand the scope of his group’s exclusive contract, the group would be “fired.”
You have been coming into work every day for years. Now there’s no need to come in tomorrow because your group no longer exists. You see, although your group collected over $20 million over the past year, and you and your fellow partners earned a tidy sum, it turns out that your group was simply […]
In my podcast How Scenario Surveys Strengthen Group Strategy, or in my article by the same name, I discuss the importance of your use of the scenario tool in setting group strategy. There’s another aspect of the Scenario Survey Process that’s important for any physician group that negotiates with a hospital, the classic example being […]
There is a complex interplay between hospital-based group exclusive contracts and ACO-entity payment mechanisms. In addition to making certain that money flows into the group, as opposed to around it, obviously a protective move, there are significant planning opportunities in the play off between the managed care contracting provisions of exclusive contracts and the terms […]
