For whom are hospitals built? For the health of patients or for the financial health and convenience of its operators and staff?
Tag: physician
Transparency Within Medical Groups
However, keep in mind that the most successful groups, the Strategic Groups™, are not run as clubs. They are not completely transparent.
Do You Really Want This Smaller Future? – Podcast
In my work with physician groups across the country, I often encounter this defeatist attitude.
Do You See Your Group as It Is or as You Wish It Were? – Medical Group Minute
Are you wearing a metaphorical pair of Blu-Blocker sunglasses?
This is What Commoditized Healthcare Looks Like
You get what you pay for.
Physicians to Subsidize Subsidized Health Insurance Exchange Participants
Although the Affordable Care Act requires that an insurer must give three months’ notice to subsidized healthcare exchange participants who fail to pay their share of premiums before the insurer can cancel coverage, the insurer has no obligation to pay for the participants’ care after the first month of that three month period.
Preserving the Past – Podcast
Physician groups are targets–hedge by taking risks outside of your current base.
Mixed Message: Restricting Scope of Practice at Medi-Spas, Increasing it Elsewhere
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. It seems as if they’ve discovered that nurses and other paraprofessionals, and in some cases, even beauticians, are performing what many, most, or, perhaps, nearly…
Spare Change – Podcast
If you don’t like the direction of change in health care, start instituting some change on your own.
Karl Marx, M.D. – Medical Group Minute
For the most part, physicians are stuck in a Marxian world of reimbursement.