Mark discusses the fact that it’s one thing for a medical group or facility to trust its employees, but you also have to verify that they’re following procedures.
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Harnessing Human Drives In Negotiation
If you’re in the selling position (which might be an actual sale of an asset or might be the sale of your efforts and knowledge), take the time and effort to strategize about how you can create an auction, or an auction-like environment, for what you have to sell. In essence you’ll be using human nature to boost your result.
Nosocomial Infection Consumes Hospital! Stop The Spread To Your Practice – Podcast
We usually think of nosocomial infection, one contracted from the environment or staff of a healthcare facility, in terms of the impact on patients.
States Investigate Overpayments, Too – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses a recent Colorado investigation into Medicaid over-billing and the $3,000,000-plus repaid to the state.
Creating Interlocking Physician-Owned Ventures
Driving through the mountain town built around a lake, I couldn’t help but notice the David Isaac empire. (David Isaac isn’t his real name, I’ve changed it for this post.) There was David Isaac Boat Sales. A mile or so away, there was the David Isaac Marina. And, there was David Isaac Toyota. A quick…
How Are Your Services Valued? – Podcast
It’s not just the delivery of medical care that determines the value that your medical practice or group delivers. It’s all of the “soft” stuff as well.
Dr. Robot Will Cut You Now
Back in the dark ages of medicine, I mean, in 2014, I wrote about competition from Dr. Nurses and Assistant Physicians. Now I’m writing about Dr. Robot. Same issue. Just on steroids. An article by Michelle Starr published last week on Cnet.com reported that a team of scientists at Children’s National Medical Center has created…
Mixed Message: Restricting Scope of Practice at Medi-Spas, Increasing it Elsewhere – Podcast
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal reporting that more states are regulating Medi-Spa ownership and placing scope of practice restrictions on the procedures performed at those facilities.
Why You Must Control the Context to Influence the Outcome
It’s morning in a mall outside of a metro station in Washington, D.C. Josh, dressed in jeans, T-shirt and baseball hat, picks up his violin and begins to play. Classical music, some of the most complex and beautiful ever written for the instrument, floods the air. Over the next three quarters of an hour, over…
No, It’s Impossible! – Medical Group Minute
How may times have you heard someone say, or yourself said, that some event that would affect your group, your career, your future, is so remote that it’s impossible.