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The coronavirus crisis has caused a short-term economic crisis for many medical groups. This podcast addresses the fact that, although it’s necessary to find solutions to those short term problems, you can’t expect short term solutions to cure underlying long term problems. The crisis is also an opportunity to strategize for the future.

The coronavirus crisis, especially as it’s become politicized, raises a number of business issues and, quite frankly, business opportunities in regard to future disruptive events. This video covers four actionable business lessons for medical group leaders. Sooner or later this crisis will end. You can’t allow yourself to be too busy, too occupied, too concerned with current events, to devote time...

There are many factors that make your practice an attractive candidate for private equity investment, but that’s not what this post focuses on.

A few weeks ago, Walgreens, the giant drug store chain, announced that it was planning to close the 157 in-store health clinics that it owns. It will continue to keep those clinics run by third parties.

Arguably, a Southern California ophthalmology group should have had its compliance eyes checked a few years ago.

Actors scramble to audition for a part, but stars choose from offered scripts. So why are you responding to that RFP?

The layers of bureaucracy that were supposedly meant to insulate the doctors from the “hassles of running a medical practice” out hassled the actual “hassles of running a medical practice.” Go figure.

At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like a plot from the old Divorce Court TV show. But no, it wasn’t a battle of the spouses over the failure of a marriage, it was a battle of a hospital and a medical group over what appears to be the failure of an exclusive anesthesia contract.

An investigation gone bad, or bad decisions made during and after a proper investigation, have an impact far beyond that on the accuser and the alleged.

We’re living in a time of fast-paced change. Sure. But, I think people have been saying that since the Enlightenment. Maybe it’s the one thing that’s remained constant. But maybe it’s not. Some things have certainly remained the same.

Perhaps it’s only anecdotal, but the several hospital executives and well-connected hospital-affiliated physician group leaders I’ve spoken within the past few weeks tell the same story: a spate of resignations by hospital-employed physicians.

There are many factors that make your practice an attractive candidate for private equity investment, but that’s not what this post focuses on.

Listen while Mark discusses a hospital’s announcement that it’s closing down its physician joint venture ASC. Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?

Compounded drugs are valid treatment. Prescribing them is legal. However, accepting (or paying) kickbacks to prescribe them is a crime.

Listen while Mark discusses converting a closed or failing hospital into a surgery center or other outpatient facility.

Herman Cain withdrew his name from consideration for a Fed seat because he couldn’t afford (or didn’t want) to work for the relatively low pay.

An outsider with no knowledge of any single fraudulent claim brings a False Claims Act suit. What you need to know.

Why You Must Understand the Intersection Of Incentives And Negotiation Strategy by Mark F. Weiss

What You Need To Know About The High Cost Of 15 Minutes Of Fame, HIPAA Edition by Mark F. Weiss

What Herman Cain Knows About The Defect In Medical Group Compensation Plans by Mark F. Weiss

Uncompensated Medical Directorship Leads to $3.2 Million False Claims Act Settlement by Mark F. Weiss

Surprise Medical Bills Language Framing And Your Bank Account by Mark F. Weiss

Sam Walton’s Failure Is A Lesson For Medical Groups - Rebroadcast by Mark F. Weiss

Repurposing A Failing Or Closed Hospital by Mark F. Weiss

Physician Discontent With Hospital Employment Beginning To Boil by Mark F. Weiss