A recent settlement in a case involving Wal-Mart raises interesting issues for hospitals contracting with medical groups.
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Paper Business Cards and Patient Interaction – Podcast
Are you creating physical touch points for your patients, customers, referral sources and other potential deal partners?
Why Love in the Air Is Money in Your Pocket
Driving down the freeway a week or so ago, I saw a large warehouse with this motto painted on it in giant letters: “We Strive For Our Customers’ Affection.”
Why Any Port Isn’t Good in a Storm – Medical Group Minute
Bigger or larger or more providers or more locations do not, in and of themselves, make a stronger business.
Don’t Confuse Strategy With Tactics (Or With Garbage)
Strategy is the map of your intended destination, not simply of each individual stop along a way that is left to chance. Tactics are steps in the implementation of strategy.
Franchising as a Healthcare Business Model
Physician group leaders often mistakenly think that their options for business organization and for expansion are limited to the models traditionally found in medicine. But that’s simply not the case.
How Soon Will Hijacked Fairness Be Coming to Healthcare? – Podcast
Where fairness is judged by outcome, not opportunity, it soon takes on a surreal twist.
The Coming Explosion in Your Business
Far too often, medical groups – in fact, closely held businesses of all kinds – have bombs, of sorts, within them, too.
I Want to Become a Partner – Medical Group Minute
Lawyers hear this all the time from newer members of their firm. Doctors, too, hear it from junior members of their medical group.
Will the Light Bulb Go on for You?
Opportunity is a funny thing because it’s always there but isn’t usually seen. That’s because it’s hiding in the problems.