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Would you rather have one marshmallow now, or two tomorrow?

If, as I’ve written before and as we’re now beginning to see, a hospital need not have beds, then what’s the difference between a hospital (which physicians can’t develop as a Medicare facility) and an ASC?

An Alternative Structure for Medical Group Compensation by Mark F. Weiss

It's Friday night. After leaving the restaurant you turn onto the sidewalk and walk down the street. Ah, an art gallery! You wander inside.

All events, lead directly to the success, or ultimate demise of a group.

July 4th, Independence Day in the United States, celebrates the original 13 colonies’ declaration, in 1776, of their independence from Great Britain.

Contracts exist so all the information can be located in one convenient place. It’s easier to enforce an agreement, when you can find all the details easily.

The new Chevy Spark is probably the most efficient car currently available, delivering an average 119 combined city MPG. The Nissan Versa 1.6S, the least expensive vehicle currently available, averages at around $11,990. Are you a value buyer? Or a price buyer?

You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.

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Medical groups have two problems: They move too slow and do what everyone else does.

Why hospitals are destroying themselves, and setting their CEOs up for termination, when they bring in national groups and “contract management companies.”

Be sure you're armed with our best information, in an easy and transportable audio format. You'll be ready, wherever the road ahead takes you.

You can listen to our most popular podcasts on the subject of managing your practice, all compiled for you in one convenient album. Sit back, enjoy, and think about your future.

A diamond and a rock, sitting side by side. Both discovered near the bottom of the Udachny diamond mine in the Sakha Republic region of Russia, one of the world’s ten deepest open-pit diamond mines. But are they of the same value?

"I can't put it in the agreement, but trust me on this. You have my word." Those are famous words from a hospital CEO. And, maybe you can trust him. But can you trust his successor?

The right question regarding the uncertain future, is to ask is what underlies your profession, your specialty, or its role. What’s the motivating desire or overriding function?

Sure, unlike immigration love, less than heartfelt medical group merger isn't a federal crime.

There was a time warp in the box from the garage.

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

Growth. There's lots of talk about it.

Listen in as we discuss a recent settlement of an actual HIPAA violation. And even more troubling, learn about another HIPAA breach settlement that didn’t even involve am actual HIPAA breach . . . only a potential one.

Ah, the shiny object, the more or less instant gratification.

Knowing how to develop emotion-based strategies and how to implement them are simply among the "combined arms" tools that medical groups must develop in order to thrive.

A magic show is about misdirection: that which is seen and that which isn’t seen.