Wisdom. Applied.

“Bob, we’ve got to give you your two weeks notice. Here’s a check for the next two weeks’ compensation. Just pack your personal belongings and Jerry, here, will see you to the door.”

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

Do you know this key to negotiation? The key that will open the door to a done deal, a deal that delivers on your wants?

If you were going to sell your house, you’d make sure that it’s put into decent or even prime shape before listing it, right?

Running a hospital based group as “service” for the hospital, functioning as a sort of clearinghouse for income and expenses, severely limits your group’s future.

If you're a medical group leader, you must view your practice as consisting of several independent, yet coordinated, units, each of which requires a separate focus.

Ford focused on keeping things simple, building one model that (had to) suit all, using interchangeable parts that relatively unskilled workers could assemble.

If you're a medical group leader, you must view your practice as consisting of several independent, yet coordinated, units, each of which requires a separate focus.

Airlines have figured out that there are different customers who are flying for different reasons and at different price points. They’ve also figured out that some are willing to travel in a slightly different style. And yes, there's an analogy here to healthcare.

Will today’s physicians soon be referred to as “human physicians” or “carbon-based docs” as opposed to the silicon-based kind? Paging Dr. Robot?

I knew that I had taken the wrong job after my first day at the firm. More than thirty years have passed, so now I can laugh about it. But back then, I thought I was screwed.

ASCs can be great investments for physicians. Oh, as long as they are real. But if all they are are rainbows, unicorns, and clear blue skies, then you’d better stay away.

Letting each partner write his or her terms of partnership is not a long-term strategy for success, it’s a short-term strategy for failure.

Perhaps you've carefully structured your medical group's relationships with hospitals, referral sources, and other influencers. But did you pay attention to what's going on inside your practice's own house?

As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.

Maybe those excuses worked in fourth grade, and maybe Samirkumar J. Shah, M.D. should have tried them, but the one he went with, “I can’t show up at my sentencing for health care fraud because my doctor says I need to rest at home following a Covid vaccine reaction,” didn’t impress United States District Judge David S. Cercone.

You don’t have to have read any Hemingway or have had an uncle with a taxidermied marlin on the wall of his den to know about fishing for big ones.

A CMS advisory opinion [Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2021-01] issued in June 2021 provides guidance that a parent-subsidiary medical practice entity structure in which the subsidiaries themselves don’t qualify as “group practices” under Stark can, in total, qualify as a “group”.

running a restaurant instead of a medical group. Let’s say you decide to measure and reward on the basis of the time a waiter or waitress takes to picks up food in the kitchen and deliver it to the table. Soon, waiters would be jogging through the joint, tossing plates onto the tables...

One thing is for certain, it will be no more walk in the park for the seven defendants convicted for their roles in a bribe and kickback scheme related to referring patients to Forest Park Hospital, a now defunct chain of Texas facilities.

With the tip of the hat to T.S. Eliot, the world for Community Regional Anesthesia Medical Group (CRAMG) ended on June 16, 2021, not with a bang but a whimper.

Quoting from his speech on August 28, 1963, King stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”

What if you were running a restaurant instead of a medical group? Let’s say you decide to measure and reward on the basis of the time a waiter or waitress takes to picks up food in the kitchen and deliver it to the table…

How prepared are you if, despite the prophylactic precautions taken by your in-house team, taken by your outside coding and billing provider, and by your EHR vendor, your defenses are breached?

In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.