ObamaCare has made it harder than it was before for physicians to own hospitals participating in federal healthcare programs. One option of course, open for as long as there is still private health insurance coverage, is for physicians interested in hospital ownership to own facilities that exclude federally funded patients. The other, and perhaps superior […]
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Disraeli commented that there are lies, damned lies and statistics. It’s time to add acronyms to the list. A new acronym to save healthcare has arrived, the ACO, an “accountable care organization.” But accountability to whom? And for what care, exactly? Lastly, and most importantly, who runs the organization? An ACO, is about power and […]
If a hospital’s demands on your group have markedly changed but the compensation for your services has not kept pace with the market, it’s not only unfair, it’s immoral, that you continue to eat the burden. Proper planning at the time of exclusive contracting includes developing a strategy to terminate and addresses the issue of what […]
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