It’s easy to be a backseat driver, but in the context of case flight from hospitals to outpatient facilities, buying large hospitals from national chains “because we can run them better” is a bit risky. Well, what the heck, it’s incredibly risky, so risky in fact, that one investor, Joel Freedman, and his company American…
A recent survey shows 87% of surveyed physicians say that they’re personally at risk of burnout.
Last week (November 20, 2018), I mentioned the increase in the physician dissatisfaction index, which now tops out at 3.95 out of a possible 5. See my Success in Motion video, Physician Misery Index Jumps Up Due To Dissatisfaction. The survey, conducted annually by the data technology firm Geneia, found that 87% of surveyed physicians say…
Franchise models exist in medicine as well as in hamburgers. For example, in the urgent care center market.
I’m going to share a secret with you today. There’s no such thing as value. At least not in the fixed sense. In fact, value is as malleable as clay. You, as a seller or as the proponent of any deal, can’t set value for a buyer or deal partner. Value to that third-party is…
Franchise models exist in medicine as well as in hamburgers. For example, in the urgent care center market.
Earlier this year, a federal trial court in Idaho struck down, and ordered unwound, a hospital’s acquisition of a medical group on grounds that it violated antitrust law.
Earlier this year, a federal trial court in Idaho struck down, and ordered unwound, a hospital’s acquisition of a medical group on grounds that it violated antitrust law. The case is now on appeal.
Thirty some years ago, my father told me that you paid less for $150 shoes than you did for a $49 pair.
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.