Most medical groups are unable to gain strategic advantage due to their own management bureaucracy.
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How the Downward Spiral of Fair Market Valuation Will Destroy Your Future – Podcast
Learn how valuation consultants’ refusal to opine at higher than the 75th percentile is taking the fairness out of fair market valuation and robbing you of your income.
Weaponized RFPs
More and more hospitals are disrupting their longstanding hospital-based group relationships as they seek to cut stipends and get more for nothing. The favored tool? A “weaponized” form of the request for proposal, called a “Fulcrum RFP™, designed to get a group to grovel for the continuation of its contract. Of course, the concept of an…
Why Hospitals Don’t Want Employed Physicians to (Really) Succeed
Explore why hospitals don’t want physicians to succeed fully, despite investing in their employment and support systems.
Accountable Care Organizations: A Reactionary Grasp Not a Revolution in Patient Care
Proponents of the ACO model argue that this time it’s different, that the model is not about controlling physicians, it’s about clinical issues and getting physicians integrated with other providers…
Trapped Inside the Box
A few weeks ago, I attended a funeral. I couldn’t help that my mind wandered to the fact that many physicians and physician group leaders run their practice’s business operation as if they were locked up in a box . . . sorry to be so morbid . . . coffin-like, in that they just keep on doing what they’ve always done in terms of treating patients, essentially ignoring many if not all real business issues, and will keep on doing the same until they run out of air.