Wisdom. Applied.

It’s no secret that hospital-based medical groups, particularly anesthesia and radiology groups, are experiencing significant trouble recruiting and retaining their professional staff due to increasing compensation demands combined with declining reimbursement.

Many people identify with the concept of “work-life balance,” and it’s valid for them.

Despite the fact that some states have strong prohibitions against the enforcement of non-competes, there are still ways to create agreements functioning as proxies for non-competes.

Certifying to Medicare that you’re here when you’re really there is a ticket to nowhere, or maybe to jail.

Health care fraud is far from harmless. Fraudulent activities drain billions from health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, leading to higher taxes and less money for other important services.

Making The Bet Without Knowing The Odds by Mark F. Weiss

You’re signed in to the hospital’s electronic medical record system. What’s the harm in just typing in the name of a friend to see what pops up?

According to 2023 reports, by 2021, nearly 70% of physicians were employed by hospitals or investor-owned corporations.

No, I don’t have a crystal ball and I can’t predict the future. But that doesn’t mean that I’m blind and can’t see a cliff dropping off on the near horizon.

Telehealth can be used to vastly improve patients’ access to medical care. At the same time, it can be used to vastly improve criminals’ access to Medicare dollars. It shouldn’t be that difficult for physicians to assess the bona fides of their proposed participation in a telehealth “business model” when the ones doing the proposing are telemarketers.

If what the government alleged were true, it would be an emergency physician’s dream job: billing for services without ever treating or even speaking with the patient.

The financial impact was immediate and momentous: Neither new nor existing claims, nor payment for them, could be processed.

The financial impact was immediate and momentous: Neither new nor existing claims, nor payment for them, could be processed.

Many predicted that the financial behemoths run by the smartest guys in the room would swallow up every physician on the planet.

Many people tend to think within professional silos. Barbers cut hair. Farmers farm. And, doctors practice medicine. Why?

Banks, brokerages, and your medical group or facility’s potential violation of HIPAA?

Most people don’t like throwing good money after bad in a contract dispute.

The first purchase price is the one that the seller receives. The second purchase price is the one that the seller pays by having sold to the wrong buyer.

What policies does your group have? How are they enforced . . . or even, how can they be enforced?

Picture a revolving door. Even though many physicians and facility administrators don’t realize it, a revolving door can be a useful analogy for anti-kickback analysis. Or, I suppose, just for kickbacks.

I remember, as a kid, walking around Disneyland, noticing yellow "no parking" size signs labeled Kodak Moment. They indicated a great vantage point for taking a photo.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that being late signals your importance or your power.

There are many reasons why contracts are usually contracted -- made compact, that is -- by having them contained within one fully integrated document.

I’ve written about hospital closures, shrinking hospitals, and hospitals that became holes in the ground. I’ve even written an entire book on The Impending Death of Hospitals. But before today, I’ve never written about a hospital that turned to crowdfunding to stay afloat.

I represent physicians in transactions across the country and there are plenty of ways to make a profit and to do the right thing for patients.