Direct contracting can be used as a strategy to deflect the negotiating pressure of payors, especially down-stream middlemen such as IPAs and risk bearing medical groups.
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: If you saw one dead raccoon, does that mean that all raccoons are dead?
Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business.
Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business. The newspaper as middleman has been put to bed for the last time.
This post is the second in a series on direct contracting by physicians and medical groups. See Direct Contracting By Physicians and Medical Groups for the first post in the series. Before we get too deep into the subject, let’s ask an epistemological question: If you saw one dead raccoon, does that mean that all raccoons […]
U.S. Government Intervenes in 5 Kickback Based Whistleblower Cases Against Insys – Success in Motion
Ride along while Mark discusses the expanding case involving Insys Therapeutics and kickbacks paid to induce prescription of its drug, Subsys.
In healthcare, middlemen abound. Hospital systems are middlemen for their controlled/employed physicians.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the need to avoid the trap of viewing the reality of the business of medicine through a tightly focused lens.
Take a seat while Mark discusses the payment crisis adding to hospitals’ woes.
Criminal and, at least, serious civil, liability lurks in many neat neighborhoods. Create your own neighborhood watch to make sure that it’s not lurking behind your medical group’s otherwise metaphorical neat lawn.