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Will Your Business Walk Back in in the Morning?
Your business exists and interfaces on multiple planes and, therefore, the far smarter approach is to explore and adopt protection on each.
A Ban on PE in Medical Practice and a Gutting of Practice Value
Certainly, Oregon is a small state in terms of medical practice, but what’s happened in Oregon could, and some say will, spread across the country.
Memorial Day 2025
We analogize business to war. Litigation to battle. Negotiation to struggle.
Advanced Practice Providers Aren’t Necessarily the Grout For the Physician Gap
Supervisory requirements aren’t just administrative niceties; they’re the difference between compliant practice and a lawsuit waiting to happen.
On Strike. Physician Unionization and the Further Commoditization of Medical Practice.
Over the past several weeks, I’ve seen multiple posts and comments on LinkedIn about the horrors of practicing as a cog in the wheel of Big Medicine, employment schemes facetiously referred to as “medical groups” by their health system or insurance company owners.
Aetna Health v. Radiology Partners and the Danger of Pass-Through Billing
There are, depending upon the particular arrangement, potential end runs around contractual pass-through billing prohibitions, but they are highly fact specific and technical.
More On Overturning the No Surprises Act
It you haven’t yet read it, see my December 16, 2024, post, Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act, for part 1 of this thread.
When that post was published on LinkedIn, my friend James Prudden commented, asking me how patients would be protected if the No Surprises Act were repealed. Here’s my response to James.
Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act
Re-frame the issue for what it really is: Surprise physician services stealing. Now’s the time for the No Surprises Act, and each state counterpart, to go.
“I Thought They Loved Me!” Is No Defense For the Spurned and Burned “Friendly Physician”
The “friendly physician.” Boy, is that’s a term of art or, perhaps better said, of artifice.