Socialism is alive and well, and I’m not simply talking about the socialistic charade of Hugo Chavez.
Tag: subcontractor
Many medical groups with large numbers (large being relative) of employed or subcontracted physicians have put themselves in the same sort of bind in respect of their workforce.
They’ve created an annual event out of the renewal of employment contracts and subcontracts by legislating a set renewal date.
Watch what you are negotiating over – don’t start a bidding war over nothing!
Take a seat and relax while you ride along with Mark and discuss the problem of expecting a valuable answer to the completely wrong question.
In the U.S., it seems that lots of people expect a tip, from the person who simply hands you your coffee at Starbucks to, I’d expect, hospital administrators (but only at for-profit facilities). Okay, just kidding, but you get the idea.
Whether one chooses to see it as a pretext or as a context, the FTC maintains that non-competes are a form of unfair competition…
Sure, it’s all PC to “counsel” these guys. To tell them how much you love them if only they will toe the line and be good boys or girls and get along with everyone while singing Kumbaya.
The moral of the story is to exercise tremendous diligence and implement operational checks and balances in connection with the presentation, and in some cases, payment, of invoices.
Despite many attempts to pretend it’s so, healthcare is not a production line either for patients or for employed or subcontracted physicians.
How does a group of, say, 100 physicians account for whose work is going to be cut back, or who will have to be let go, when and if a facility the group serves closes or drastically scales back?