Wisdom. Applied.

Why Free* Doesn’t Mean Free 18.01.2024 1:42 ↓

I was driving when I saw the sign, one of those large plasticized canvas ones, tacked up on the side of a small office building: "FREE* First Chiropractic Visit"

Jury Convicts Chief Compliance Officer For $50 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme 30.11.2023 3:31 ↓

As I’ve mentioned many times on the blog, medical groups and facilities often create whistleblowers – their own compliance officers and other executives flip on them with regularity.

Surprise Hospital Billing 23.11.2023 3:39 ↓

What’s a hospital surprise bill? Well, it’s something slightly different from the concept applied to physicians.

All That Glitters Isn't Gold. Is Your Contract Merely Sparkly? 16.11.2023 3:02 ↓

Not only is all that glitters not gold, shipping containers thought to contain nickel might just contain carbon steel.

Jet Blue-ing Up Your Practice 30.10.2023 1:23 ↓

What is your back up plan in the event that your preventive action fails?

It’s National Kickback Day! (Sort of like Groundhog Day, But More Expensive) 26.10.2023 12:01 ↓

Sometimes, I think it's Groundhog Day. No, not the Punxsutawney Phil kind, but the Bill Murray movie kind, you know, when things keep repeating themselves over and over and over again. Like stupid kickback schemes.

Love at First Blight: Surgeon and Fiancée Settle Kickback Allegations 31.08.2023 3:41 ↓

Love may be blind, but whistleblowers aren't.

A $15 Billion Lesson On Stipend Negotiations 24.08.2023 2:58 ↓

We’ll take your $15 billion stipend, but as to those strings you put on it, “F*^%” you”.

Why Document the Value of a Group Member’s Interest? 26.06.2023 1:43 ↓

They say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

About the Worst Advice You Can Get 26.06.2023 2:31 ↓

The context was the sale of various healthcare facilities, deals which, by definition, involve the sale of the business...

Breaking the Physician Hospital Paradigm 13.04.2023 2:18 ↓

The paradigm for physician hospital relations is completely at odds with society's other trends.

The Healthcare Con-Vergence 12.04.2023 7:40 ↓

How will physicians fit within the bureaucratically envisioned healthcare system of the future?

Don’t Worry About Your Future – The Hospital Has it All Planned 12.04.2023 3:58 ↓

The hospital has written the script for your future. Don't like it? Grab your own pen.

Hospital Employment is No Panacea for Physicians 12.04.2023 3:00 ↓

Employment by hospitals is no safe harbor for physicians; in fact, it's quite the opposite.

The Only Thing the Hospital Has to Fear is Fear Itself 12.04.2023 2:29 ↓

Do you know the secrets of using fear of loss as a tactic in hospital negotiations?

I Don't Even Know Where to Begin 12.04.2023 3:30 ↓

How to develop the skills and strengths to guide your group's future.

Who's Driving Your Practice's Bus? II 12.04.2023 2:20 ↓

There is no question that the healthcare market is changing rapidly. This means that groups must have the ability to make business decisions rapidly.

Who's Driving Your Practice's Bus? 12.04.2023 1:42 ↓

Many medical practices operate as if no one is driving the bus.

Lessons on Negotiation from Artie the Briard 12.04.2023 1:41 ↓

"No" is only the beginning point for further negotiation.

You Can't Un-Ring That Bell 11.04.2023 1:38 ↓

Train your medical group's members for actions consistent with the group's strategy.

Mistakes Happen 11.04.2023 1:36 ↓

It’s often how the mistake maker, not the “victim,” reacts that makes the difference in the outcome.

Don't Lower Your Goals Just So You Can Say You Hit Them 11.04.2023 1:00 ↓

Lowering your goals just to tell yourself that you’ve hit them is a crime against your potential.

I Want to Become a Partner 11.04.2023 1:36 ↓

Lawyers hear this all the time from newer members of their firm. Doctors, too, hear it from junior members of their medical group.

What's It Cost? 11.04.2023 1:13 ↓

In a personal services business, from medical groups to acute care hospitals, what's more important, your people or your tangible assets?

A Medical Group in Motion 11.04.2023 1:56 ↓

People often cite Newton's First Law as something akin to "an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction."