Over the past several weeks, I’ve seen multiple posts and comments on LinkedIn about the horrors of practicing as a cog in the wheel of Big Medicine, employment schemes facetiously referred to as “medical groups” by their health system or insurance company owners.
By the early years of the 20th Century, hospitals became large healthcare factories due to the size and expense of what was then cutting edge technology…
Fueled by the failure of large medical groups, the disappointments of hospital employment, and the ratcheting down of care by private equity, physicians are increasingly seeking alternatives to their current practice arrangements. Many, alone or with others, are exploring the creation of new practices under their own ownership and control. In this first article in…
Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician.
What’s a hospital surprise bill? Well, it’s something slightly different from the concept applied to physicians.
What policies does your group have? How are they enforced . . . or even, how can they be enforced?
Physicians, think that your competitor is Dr. Smith across the street or the hospital and its 185 captive docs? Think longer term.
What policies does your group have? How are they enforced . . . or even, how can they be enforced?
Hospitals that use RFPs and others fool’s tools in respect of physician relationships will surely suffer as fools in the end.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.