I promised to indemnify you. Here’s a quarter. You might skip over indemnification provisions when negotiating a contract. You understand what they are. They’re just boilerplate, right? Wrong. First, boilerplate isn’t “extra stuff.” It’s the opposite. Like the strong metal plate around a boiler designed to contain it and prevent an explosion, boilerplate in an…
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What’s a Medical Group Compensation Plan For?
Okay, okay. The chances are great that your first reaction after reading the title was to think, “It’s so I’ll get paid.” Now that we’re past that, let’s look a bit deeper. From the medical group perspective, a compensation plan is a part, in fact the largest part, of the practice’s system for driving behavior…
Greasy Kickback Residue is All That’s Left of Pain Cream Fraud – Medical Group Minute Series
Oh what a tangled web they weave; multiple professionals caught up marketing an ineffective medicine in return for disguised kickbacks.
Firefighters, Fear, and the Future of Your Medical Group – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark F. Weiss as he talks about what firefighters’ actions tell us about the mindset required of medical group leaders.
Artists, Patient Satisfaction, and the Creation of Something Out of Nothing – Podcast
It’s Friday night. After leaving the restaurant you turn onto the sidewalk and walk down the street.
How to Avoid a Black Friday for Your Medical Group – Medical Group Minute
Are you advertising your lowest rates of the season? Beware!
Negotiation Rules: Hallway Chat = Boardroom Meeting
Picture the following situation: A large hospital-based group provides contracted services at multiple facilities, including at a hospital that we’ll call Community Memorial St. Mark’s. The group is in the midst of renegotiating its exclusive contract with the hospital. Early on, the group and the hospital settled on coverage of some newly added slots from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m….
When You Have Time to Gripe – Podcast
“When you have time to gripe, you have time to wipe. When you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”
The Medical Group Governance Matrix
We all hear, and most of us say, that the pace of change in healthcare is quickening. That means that the pace of required decision-making is increasing, too. Unless, that is, you want to take the “default” route. That’s the one is which you let someone else make the decisions that impact you; you’re just…
Discrimination Against Physicians as Hospital Owners Could End Soon
Since the beginning of this year, two bills, companion legislation in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, have been introduced to end discrimination against physicians and improve care for patients.