Medical Groups and entrepreneurial physicians must learn to manage business risk as a part of their overall strategy.
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The Sole Restaurant Syndrome and Medical Practice Failure
If you owned the only restaurant in town, chances are that even in a recession, business would be pretty good. People would be flocking to you and you wouldn’t have to do much, if anything, to drive business.
Are You Headed to the Healthcare Factory? – Podcast
Are physicians going each day to a factory . . . a factory of a different kind?
Will All Physicians Be Hospital-Based?
If you think that exclusive contracts are just for the hospital-based specialties, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, pathology, and radiology, you’re wrong.
Socialism is Alive and Well Within Medical Groups
Socialism is alive and well, and I’m not simply talking about the socialistic charade of Hugo Chavez. Instead, I’m talking about the employee or subcontracted members of your group who, even though they are being paid every penny due to them pursuant to their employment agreement or subcontract, have the misguided mindset that “there is…
How the Downward Spiral of Fair Market Valuation Will Destroy Your Future – Podcast
Learn how valuation consultants’ refusal to opine at higher than the 75th percentile is taking the fairness out of fair market valuation and robbing you of your income.
How to Navigate the Rising Tide of Aggressive RFPs – Podcast
Listen to Mark discuss how to Navigate the rising tide of aggressive RFPs.
Weaponized RFPs
More and more hospitals are disrupting their longstanding hospital-based group relationships as they seek to cut stipends and get more for nothing. The favored tool? A “weaponized” form of the request for proposal, called a “Fulcrum RFP™, designed to get a group to grovel for the continuation of its contract. Of course, the concept of an…
How to Extract More Than Fair Market Value
Don’t settle for market parity. Learn how physician groups can negotiate terms that exceed fair‑market value for strategic advantage.
Lemons to Lemonade
Explore common problems in physician and hospital relationships and learn how to address them effectively.