Earlier this year, a Santa Clara County, California jury awarded the insurer Aetna a $37,452,199.00 judgment in a lawsuit against Bay Area Surgical Management, LLC, a surgery center management company, a number of its managed ASCs, and three of Bay Area’s executives.
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Oftentimes the value of something relates to the environment in which it is presented.
It’s morning in a mall outside of a metro station in Washington, D.C. Josh, dressed in jeans, T-shirt and baseball hat, picks up his violin and begins to play. Classical music, some of the most complex and beautiful ever written for the instrument, floods the air.
Earlier this year, a Santa Clara County, California jury awarded the insurer Aetna a $37,452,199.00 judgment in a lawsuit against Bay Area Surgical Management, LLC, a surgery center management company, a number of its managed ASCs, and three of Bay Area’s executives.
Back in the dark ages of medicine, I mean, in 2014, I wrote about competition from Dr. Nurses and Assistant Physicians. Now I’m writing about Dr. Robot. Same issue. Just on steroids.
Driving through the mountain town built around a lake, I couldn’t help but notice the David Isaac empire. (David Isaac isn’t his real name, I’ve changed it for this post.) There was David Isaac Boat Sales. A mile or so away, there was the David Isaac Marina. And, there was David Isaac Toyota. A quick […]
Back in the dark ages of medicine, I mean, in 2014, I wrote about competition from Dr. Nurses and Assistant Physicians. Now I’m writing about Dr. Robot. Same issue. Just on steroids. An article by Michelle Starr published last week on Cnet.com reported that a team of scientists at Children’s National Medical Center has created […]
It’s morning in a mall outside of a metro station in Washington, D.C. Josh, dressed in jeans, T-shirt and baseball hat, picks up his violin and begins to play. Classical music, some of the most complex and beautiful ever written for the instrument, floods the air. Over the next three quarters of an hour, over […]
It was late December. I was sitting across the table from the hospital CEO. We were in the midst of negotiating a deal involving my client, a large physician group, and his facility. And then, he made a major negotiating blunder, giving up on a deal point clearly in my client’s favor, in fact, a […]
This past Friday, April 15, 2016, a Santa Clara County, California jury awarded the insurer Aetna a $37,452,199.00 judgment in a lawsuit against Bay Area Surgical Management, LLC, a surgery center management company, a number of its managed ASCs, and three of Bay Area’s executives. The ASCs were out of network as to Aetna plans. […]
